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How do mains powered devices retain their settings when powered off
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Modern motherboards do not use "watch batteries" but rather high capacity capacitors for the cmos memory.
Routers and the like use EPROM chips (like flash memory - Erasable Programmable Read only Memory)
The bits are in solid state so no, they will never "run out"
Andy0 -
Modern motherboards do not use "watch batteries" but rather high capacity capacitors for the cmos memory.
Routers and the like use EPROM chips (like flash memory - Erasable Programmable Read only Memory)
The bits are in solid state so no, they will never "run out"
Andy
Andy, think you mean EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read only Memory) you erase an EPROM using UV.Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0 -
^^ Yes I do .. No coffee yet
thanks 0 -
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