Forest,the voltage required to keep data in a CMOS memory chip...

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    Forest,
    the voltage required to keep data in a CMOS memory chip is lower than that required for a chip such as a clock to keep running. So as the battery starts to run down, the clock will lose the plot first, and some time later the CMOS will start lose its settings.
 
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