What Is Cmos

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  1. Coolguy

    Coolguy Well-Known Member

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    in bios, it did a quick check up, and said bad cmos check up and then it freezes what can i do?
     
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    Well i don't know what it means exavtly but something in your computer has been affected, and may spread so ask one of the really geeks xD.
     
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    definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmos

    CMOS is a small chip on your boiard. either:

    1. your cmos battery is dead or weak

    or

    2. as i told you last night, you could have shocked the board..
     
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    it couldnt have been that i shoked the board, and i looked at wikipeada, too many complicated big words, anyway i got to my windows, and something wierd happend, i installed windows yesterday, had 29 days left to register windows, right after that error, 29 days had passed... i was like huh? it might have been because the time in my machine broke or sumthin

    im trying to connected my old mobo, and noticed theres no 4 pin connector wtf?
     
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    I think that the CMOS battery must be dead (that's why it isn't keeping time). I would suggest getting a new CMOS battery before you go around switching motherboards, and the reason there isn't a four pin connector on your motherboard is because the CPU's that that board takes aren't powerful enough to need their own power supply.
     

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