Re: Somrthing altered my BIOS settings

Bios settings are held in the cmos, a form of RAM. The cmos battery
maintains life of the RAM while the PC is physically off. Its on the
motherboard.

No, the battery keeps the real-time clock running, and that's it. The data
held in BIOS is non-volatile flash RAM, and remains intact forever whether
the battery is present or not. That's why the BIOS reset jumper exists,
otherwise we could just remove the battery and clear the BIOS settings, but
that doesn't work.

I'm surprised at some of the responses in this thread. :-)


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