The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, stores the system date and time as well as other settings on your Gateway laptop. The CMOS is powered by a small battery. If this battery runs low ...

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 ...

If you have owned your computer for a few years, you may notice certain problems, such as it may no longer remember the current time and date, certain peripherals may ...