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RTC Battery ??

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Hi, Does anyone know what exactly an RTC Battery is?? I have a Toshiba laptop that comes up with an error message, regarding this... Many Thanks

Name: ryan
Date: April 24, 2003 at 11:23:18 Pacific

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RTC refers to cmos battery, that means its probably dying. Its time to change it to a new battery before you lost all your bios configuration data

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That is correct Real Time Clock or CMOS that contains BIOS

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Ram/Video card issues.

266MB Ram or 512?

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