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by liteskindbrothr

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I'm attempting to reset my CMOS, but have never done
this before. I've consulted several sites as well as the
motherboard's instructions manual. It is a motherboard
with the jumpers, so as far as everything says, you don't
have to remove the battery if it has the jumpers. I unplug
the power, let the power sourc light fade out, move from
1+2 to 2+3 leave it for about 30 seconds, return it, and
turn the power back on. I am continuously met with no
prevail. Should i maybe try taking out the battery and
reseting it that way as if it didn't have the jumpers? I'm
clueless.

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by tintoman

What do you mean? is your screen blank? give us more info on what the problem is

by dmiles

The process will state 1 min. or less,but it may take a little longer for the CMOS to clear,try it for 5 mins. and see if this works,remember to note your Bios settings

by liteskindbrothr

My monitor screen is black unless i pull it out of its own
sleep mode by hitting the menu button, then it just
displays the "No Signal" screen. I've tried another monitor
and ruled out that it could have anything to do with that.
I'm going to try the longer jumper switch time of 5
minutes or so, and hopefully that will work. More
information wise.. OS is windows vista, i've tried pulling
everything out and cleaning it first as my motherboard
instruction manual suggested, that was unsuccesful as
well. I'll see where i'm at after this longer wait time, maybe
i'll be lucky.

by mjd420nova

One of the tricks I've had to use was a small wire with aligator clips on each end. I remove the CMOS battery and clip the + and - (plus and minus) terminals with the wire. If it has a jumper to reset I use that too and leave it for a couple minutes. Then put the jumper back to normal, remove the clips and re-insert the battery. That will get you back to default settings and if you promise not to tell anyone it also resets any BIOS passwords that may be set. Under penalty of death you shouldn't reveal that to anyone but your spouse.

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