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Transcription: The CMOS, or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip, stores or remembers your PC system settings. These settings are necessary for booting your PC. These include type of floppy and hard drives, amount of RAM, and in older PCs, monitor type and math coprocessor. This chip also contains a real-time clock which keeps track of the date and time. This chip is non-volatile RAM or NVAC VRAM for short, which means it can remember its data when your PC is turned off. This is possible because it is connected to a small battery which maintains power to the chip when your PC is turned off. This batt ...