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 ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

PCs have a battery on the motherboard that provides the Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor with a minimal amount of power, even when unplugged. This CMOS battery lets the system clock keep ...

I've got a 7 year old Lenovo Thinkpad x230 and my gf has the same year Dell Inspiron. Thinking of replacing the CMOS batteries. They both work just fine after replacing spinning rust with SSDs. The ...