Motherboards also have a slot for a small lithium rechargeable battery. The space for the battery on the motherboard is usually small and round. It is usually the only space on the motherboard that the battery may fit into. This battery has a life span of about 4 years after which it, like all things dies and cannot hold charge anymore. Then it needs to be replaced. It is this battery that keeps the system from losing the contents of the Cmos, like your Bios settings. The battery rarely goes bad, you will know because: 1. The system will start to experience slow clock. By this we mean the stuff that tells you what time it is and not the system or bus clock which is different. 2. You may sometimes get such error messages as checksum error, simply put, the battery is almost dead that once the PC power is turned off and the battery is supposed to come on now to maintain such things as time, but it does not because it is dead. When the battery is completely dead and the