CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Even though it’s a small chip on your motherboard, it does a lot more than you might expect. First, let’s clear up a common misunderstanding: ...

When you start your system, first, it performs the checksum test of the BIOS. If the checksum test is incorrect, it is assumed that the BIOS is corrupt and the hidden ...

I've been having problems with my new PC (see this post for details for some time now, and I'm now occasionally getting CMOS checksum errors. From searches in the foums here, its seems that replacing ...