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cmos bios

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  1. Rockyrocks

    Question Thermal paste and CMOS battery on PS3 Console ?

    I replaced the thermal paste on my PS3 Super Slim. Tested it, it’s working fine except it asks me to set date and time on every boot. Is this because the CMOS battery is dead? I don’t mind changing it but the thermal paste I used was only ‘used’ for 30mins when I tested the console. So I was...
  2. gurumuxamil

    Question Motherboard doesn't start after Clearing CMOS

    Hello fellows, I have a Z370 Auros Gaming 5 motherboard It was working fine until I turned on the Secure boot on it. In order to enable the Secure boot it said to change the Performance key or something (that's the where I don't remember which performance key or settings I changed, I just made...
  3. CASachs

    Question Resetting date in motherboard BIOS after replacing CMOS battery disables video out ?

    I have a very old Window XP system (moving file off floppy disks, converting the files, and onto other media for preservation - which is the only reason I still have it). I recently replaced the CMOS battery on the ABIT KV7 motherboard and then went into the BIOS to reset the date/time to be...
  4. S

    Question CMOS Battery question

    So for some reason or other, my motherboard seems to not have a cmos battery present, does that mean that I'm unable to save bios settings at all, or does it mean they will be reset every time there is no power in the mobo?
  5. demun

    Question Bios Got Changed

    Hello, I have a msi Motherboard in my pc. The product is k9n6pgm2-v. S/N: 601-7309-090B0911049767 2 years ago, when the time I'm using windows 7, I got so many features in my bios with different tabs. But everything got changed when I upgraded to windows 10. Now my bios is something like cmos...