Let’s clarify a few things first. A CMOS chip is vastly different than the CMOS battery on your motherboard. CMOS is a MOSFET ...

Locate the CMOS battery on your motherboard. Gently pull it out of the socket. Wait for a few minutes and reinsert the battery with the correct polarity. Turn on your computer and see if the issue ...

The upcoming PS5 Pro apparently contains a secret upgrade that wasn't mentioned anywhere in Sony's marketing for the console.

Speaking of those, some boards will not boot without a CMOS battery attached ... pulling it through one of the multiple holes that all motherboards have. Let’s talk more about the mechanical ...

A battery that maintains the time, date, hard disk and other configuration settings in the CMOS memory. CMOS batteries are small and are attached directly to the motherboard. See BIOS setup and ...

The PS5 Pro is here and now that it's been out for more than a week, there's an official teardown of the console from iFixit.

To reset the BIOS password using this method, you need to remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard of the laptop and put it back after 5-7 minutes during which all the settings of the CMOS are ...

Sony's new PlayStation 5 Pro console gets full specs and teardown ahead of launch: 8 cores Zen 2 CPU, 16.7 TFLOPs RDNA GPU, ...

all CMOS settings revert to factory defaults. Even with the battery in place, users will lose settings such as the current time. GIGABYTE's AM1 motherboards solve this issue by including a ...