Picture this: you’ve prepared the best presentation, perfected your words, and groomed yourself immaculately for an important meeting. You’re ready. But just before presenting, you discover that you forgot to bring your power adapter, and your laptop’s battery life is barely holding on at 10%.
If you’ve owned your laptop for several years, it’s possible your computer is malfunctioning because the CMOS battery died. The CMOS battery is a piece of hardware that’s unique to laptops. When it dies, it could cause your laptop to encounter problems booting up.