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re: Completely return to Setup's defaults, w/o any password
Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(31 messages posted)
No need to leave battery out all night unless you want too. You can access sooner
like I described earlier.
On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 10:30 am, Kiwi wrote:
>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.
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>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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