What is a CMOS battery?
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What is a CMOS battery?
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A Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) battery is installed on the motherboard. It provides backup to CMOS to store computer hardware configuration, date, and time settings when a computer's main power is off.
Note: Incorrect date and time on the computer indicate failure of the CMOS battery.
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