How to reset a BIOS?
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From: BillW50 on 20 Apr 2010 09:20 In news:oanps51so665plf044tuvjqivhvk0hp1h0(a)4ax.com, Happy Oyster typed on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:51:17 +0300: > I found no reset button. > > The power supply battery is taken out. The power comes from the > external supply. The plug I pulled out. Does not change a thing. > > There was a PCMCIA card with 2 USB connectors. When I had that in the > notebook, I installed IBM PC-DOS 7. That is back from 1994... It > asked me if I wanted to install PCMCIA support ("permanent"). As that > perhaps would help me to use the cards with DOS (so I hoped), I > clicked "yes". Deinstalling the stuff did not change a thing. I do > not know WHERE it did WHAT. There is no description AND it referenced > to some IBM stuff I never had heard of before. > > My first guess was that it had written some nonsense to the HDD (MBR > or somewhere else), so I reinstalled DOS and Linux from scratch. Did > not help... Well it is possible that something is written to the boot drive to change the keyboard layout I suppose. But you could prove that by booting something else from floppy, CD/DVD, or flash, or other USB drive. Without any reset button. It can be a tiny hole on the bottom of the laptop, btw. There should be two CMOS reset pads on the motherboard. You shouldn't have to disassemble anything. As you should be able to see it by removing one of the trap doors on the bottom of the laptop. And just short the two pads together with the main battery and the AC removed. No need to remove the CMOS/RTC battery either. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009)
From: Happy Oyster on 20 Apr 2010 09:29 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:20:49 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >Without any reset button. It can be a tiny hole on the bottom of the >laptop, btw. There should be two CMOS reset pads on the motherboard. You >shouldn't have to disassemble anything. As you should be able to see it >by removing one of the trap doors on the bottom of the laptop. And just >short the two pads together with the main battery and the AC removed. No >need to remove the CMOS/RTC battery either. There is no such hole to be found. It is a L2400D. What would the reset do? Reset the CMOS? -- Die volle H�rte: http://www.kindersprechstunde.at *************************************************************** Die Medienmafia � Die Regividerm-Verschw�rung http://www.transgallaxys.com/~kanzlerzwo/showtopic.php?threadid=5710
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