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reboot.

Losing CMOS RTC Settings

As mentioned before, your CMOS RAM needs a continuous trickle charge to

keep the internal clock running and remember its settings. Motherboards use

some type of battery, usually a 3-volt Lithium coin battery, to give the CMOS

RAM the charge it needs when the computer is turned off (see Figure 5-37).

This is called the CMOS battery. Typical systems use a CR2032 battery.

(What does your system use?)

Figure 5-37 A CMOS battery

If some mishap suddenly erases the information on the CMOS RAM, the

computer might not boot or you’ll get nasty-looking errors at boot. Any PC

will boot to factory defaults if the CMOS clears, so the chances of not

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