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Completely return to Setup's defaults, w/o any password
Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 10:30 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2109 messages posted)
I would guess that Carol's link should've described the easiest reset of all. Maybe
it was worded in geek terms, or the linked site was offline. There is no real need
to pull out the battery, and when you do that, no need to restart while it's out.
To fall back to the old way, on a really antique system, you just leave the battery
out all night, and the stored backup power will all be drained, after which the BIOS
will show its original default settings.
For about ten years, probably longer, and I just don't recall how long it's been,
most MB's have been produced with a "CMOS Reset switch" built in. It consists of
three pins that have a "jumper" across two of them. To reset the BIOS to defaults,
just move the jumper so it covers the next pair, count to ten slowly, and then put
it back where it came from. That is the easiest, fastest reset.
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Kiwi
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On Friday, November 25, 2005 at 2:05 pm, Willis wrote:
>well, I was able to change the password to get into the bios
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