What does the flashing IC mean by the clock

[mrnowrench]

My sager 5750 I just got it recently and I replaced the battery on the motherboard and lately I've noticed that on boot up there is a second clock on the front edge of the laptop and it flashes different numbers and now right next to the clock it has IC right to the left of the clock. I don't know what that is and until recently never done this before. Any suggestions? Running windows XP

 

[badboyrog2]

IC = Integrated circuits
FLASH = Flash occupies a middle ground between RAM and ROM. It is non-volatile, so data saved in it remains even without power. The computer can access the data on it at high speeds. Unlike conventional ROM, flash can be rewritten 100,000 to millions of times.