CMOS Battery Tips

What is CMOS battery?. This is a tiny device at motherboard but able to create a computer system to run smoothly. Following tips will explain how to find out about CMOS battery damage

CMOS battery is a battery that is located on the motherboard body, such as a battery of you general battery watch, but have a wider dimension. You can see CMOS battery problem with the characteristics as follows:

1.When you switched on your computer, you got message 'CMOS checksum error'
The time will remain changing time after time however you have tried to change it to recent time (either in bios or after entry into the system).
2.Computer does not work at all when switched on. Not have any warnings that appear, there is no beep sound at all and the screen does not display any posts anything

You can overcome this problem with the following steps:
Clear the CMOS do the work to restore the bios settings to default conditions (the standard default manufacturer). Can be done with 2 ways namely:
- Disconnect the battery from its place. About ± 5-10 minutes after that, please re-install the battery
- Moving the position of jumpers on the motherboard. To facilitate this operation, you can see on the motherboard guide

Check the CMOS battery holder on the motherboard to avoid the less fit the holder, too loose, and so forth.
If all the steps above does not give you results then you should replace the CMOS battery. When buying a new one you have to know the battery type, because each type has a different number, especially in the serial that is located on the battery itself.