Sticky: Computer problems & Fixes ? ? ?

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Just my two cents - it is a bad idea to short the CMOS jumper without removing the battery. It will short your battery too. Pulling the battery also will not always accomplish your objective.

The short answer is - do both if you want to restore factory defaults on a particular system.

-S

No it wont, pulling the jumper will take the batter out of the cirquit and puting the jumper into the other position will ground the cmos cirquit. Now if you put the jumper back into its original position the battery will be back in the cirquit and will keep the changes stored by providing the electrical charge nessesary to keep the bits of information stored on the chip.

Edit: seems like this was allready said, should have read before posting, in my defence it is 8am, i ahve been awake for the past 3 days.