Resetting Bios/Cmos

[mahleumon]

Is there a way to reset bios/cmos if there is no battery or jumpers to do so. Hope there is. Thanks

[qball]

You generally reset the BIOS, well, thru the BIOS. On most mobos, the CMOS RAM can be cleared by the battery, jumpers (both you don't want), or shorting pins or solder points.

[Bovon]

Every bios I have worked with has a way to reset it back to default or in somecases, fail safe mode. This would be in the bios menu itself.

There has to be a battery there somewhere, in some of the older boards, the battery was sealed inside a chip and was not accessable by the normal way, like actually being able to see a physical battey there someplace. These chips were/are removable from the socket (all I have ever seen were)

[NDD]

An old trick that worked many times for me on older comps is to pass the screwdriver all over the BIOS chip pins, when comp power is off. If it doesn't work, and you sure there's no jumper or battery, then you can remove the BIOS chip from it's socket for about half a hour, then place it back, carefully.

Best Regards ...