Friday, June 3, 2011

How would the battery of the motherboard affect the PC?

Every motherboard has a battery. If the battery were to run out eventually, what would be the consequence? How will this affect the PC?How would the battery of the motherboard affect the PC?Typically, a small, long-lasting battery (e.g. a lithium coin cell CR2032) is used to keep the NVRAM %26quot;refreshed%26quot; for many years. Therefore, a failing battery on a motherboard will produce the symptoms of a computer that cannot determine the correct date and time, nor remember what hardware configuration the user has selected. The BIOS itself is unaffected by the status of the battery.How would the battery of the motherboard affect the PC?Every computer comes with a tiny flat battery installed in the motherboard known as a CMOS battery.This is responsible for maintaining the information you see in white fonts on a black background as a computer is restarting.It is also responsible for the maintenance of the system's clock.



So all you have to do is go to a computer shop and buy a CR2032 CMOS battery.Then open up the case of the computer and carefully pull out the old one and immediately replace it with the new one.How would the battery of the motherboard affect the PC?System will not retain settings, ie date/time and other settings