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CMOS Checksum Error: What It Is And How To Fix It

Before your operating system boots, the computeru2019s motherboard handles a bunch of lower-level tasks, preparing all the system components to run and ultimately handing things off to the operating system. The software on the motherboard is called the BIOS (Basic Input Output System). In addition to booting up your computer, the BIOS contains a lot of settings for its hardware, like speeds, voltages, system time, and boot priorities. The BIOS settings arenu2019t saved on your hard drive. Theyu2019re on their own chip called the CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor).

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