You need to begin by locating the CMOS battery, which is a thin, round, button-like object. It can sometimes be hidden by extension cards or connectors. On older PCs it may have a cylindrical shape.

Question: Having recently returned home from school I dug out my three-year-old Gateway Desktop PC and installed Windows XP on it. However, soon after the installation I noticed that the clock was ...

One of the main culprits behind BIOS issues is the CMOS battery. The battery powers the CMOS memory, which stores BIOS settings. If the battery is drained, the CMOS will not remember the settings, and ...

If you have owned your computer for a few years, you may notice certain problems, such as it may no longer remember the current time and date, certain peripherals may ...

Frustratingly common for PC users, boot problems can stem from a variety of software and hardware glitches. A particularly frequent issue is when a Windows computer ...

In this week’s installment of Tech 911, a reader writes in to find some clarity, not solve an issue with a broken device or failing hardware. Said reader was probably poking around his motherboard a ...

I had a co-worker tell me that he had an old computer that the "trickle charger" died on him, thus causing his CMOS to die and screw up his BIOS. I have never heard of anything like a "trickle charger ...

Q: I have purchased a lot of music from the iTunes Store, and I am worried that if my hard drive crashes for good, all those songs I paid for will be gone. How do I back up my iTunes music files? A: ...