The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, stores the system date and time as well as other settings on your Gateway laptop. The CMOS is powered by a small battery. If this battery runs low ...
Your laptop's motherboard is probably shot.. The system timer is part of the chipset, either the super I/O chip or the southbridge.. <BR><BR>If it was the CMOS battery going bad, your system would ...
When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...