CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. It is a small battery that provides a continuous power supply to the CMOS chip. A CMOS chip stores BIOS settings. When a CMOS battery dies, you ...

I build my first pc this weekend with the K7S5A and on the first boot I got "CMOS Battery Low" followed by "CMOS Settings Wrong" and "CMOS Memory Size Wrong". When I pressed F1 and continued with the ...

The motherboard of PCs and laptops contains a battery that runs the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) and keeps the computer's clock accurate. Although it may not seem vital to the ...