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Mel
| | Posted on Friday, October 5, 2001 - 9:22 am: | |
Here's a neat trick I used at 2 am this Morn to get into a ATX Pentium to clear the password, I took a piece of file card and put it under the button cell battery for 1 hr to break contact, don't remove the battery, left it on for 1 hour, and up, I was into the setup!!! Of course, unplug all power supplies and use anti static procedures and you will get that old cranky Pentium up and running!!!! |
Michael
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 1:06 pm: | |
Won't work on all boards. Some CMOS RAM chips have tiny batteries embedded in them which protect the password from erasure by removing, disconnecting or shorting the main backup battery. For these, there is a special jumper to reset the password. The procedure for using the jumper variesfrom board to board. |
patrickstar
| | Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 8:43 pm: | |
Good point Michael, I screwed up the password on my Gateway 5150 Laptop when the screen was giving me problems and now I can't seem to get in! No jumpers as far as I can tell, and I can't seem to find the CMOS battery.
Gateway Tech Support couldn't (wouldn't??) help without sending it in and God knows for how much. . . If this keeps up the parts may be worth more than the whole! I just stuck it in the closet for the last 6 months.
Unless . . .Do you by chance know how to clear CMOS on the GAteway 5150?
Is there a way to |
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