This is an ''absolutely stupid'' question, but I was planning to clean my Xbox and reapply thermal paste, and I was looking at the teardown for some clues of where to clean, and I came across this particular picture the southbridge board and I'm TOYALLY confused.[br]
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I'm not such a PC guy; I mainly play console games and couldn't assemble a PC myself because my parents are afraid that I might electrocute myself. HOWEVER, I do know what a CMOS battery slot on a motherboard looks like. And the Xbox's southbridge board have a shape that looks EXACTLY like a CMOS battery slot. That got me wondering: Can I put a CMOS battery on an Xbox, for whatever reason? Why does it even have a place for that at all? Why not utilize that space for something else but instead leave a space for a CMOS battery that they don't even install??? Also, there seems to be a lot of components missing on that particular board, since there's so many solder pads and nothing on them. Do Xboxes actually have a BIOS when Microsoft designed it but later decided that it doesn't really need BIOS at all?[br]
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I'm totally ''clueless'' of what Microsoft is doing. Any ideas?