10-09-2009, 11:58 PM
Well first of all this is my first tutorial so I hope you like it!
So one day you are messing around with your computer, and you come across something called BIOS. You tinker with it, and decide to save it to see if you've made your computer any better! Well as soon as you save it, when rebooting you are given a black screen. OH NO! Its not booting up!
Don't fear. Because there is a way to reset BIOS (thank god that's avalable).
1.) Now if you haven't already, shutdown your computer and switch your power supply from on to off (I/O).
2.) Open your case and locate your BIOS battery. If you don't know what those looks like. Here's a picture
(It should look similar to this)
![[Image: EEA0E09.jpg]](http://www.fixya.com/uploads/Images/EEA0E09.jpg)
3.) Now locate the 3 pin jumper by the battery and replace it into the other opposite pins. For example, lets say the jumper is in pins 1 and pins 2. While your computer is off, remove it from those pins, and replace it back in pins 2 and pins 3. Power your computer back up, notice it does not boot up, just is powering the bios chip to reset, wait 10 or more seconds, and then replace the jumper back into pins 1 and 2. (It should look like this, however you may all have different motherboards so it may be in a section with other pins such as speakers, or something else.)
![[Image: W20090910-BIOS.jpg]](http://download.windowssecrets.com/images/wsn/W20090910-BIOS.jpg)
Wait, so Keyreaper, all I have to do is, move the pin over, turn it on, wait a few seconds, then put it back where it was in the first place?
Exactly! If done correctly, after replacing the pins the computer should boot up as normal, it may go though a systems check or some other thing of the sort, then boot up to your OS!
But Keyreaper I tried what you said to do, and it still hasn't worked.
Well there are some alternative solutions, one of them is to remove the BIOS batter (picture above) and remove the power supply cord. Then hold your power button to drain your motherboard and everything else of power, I'd also do it one more time to make sure, and if you want to be even more sure, you can wait a whole day so all the energy is lost. After doing the selected steps. You just replace the battery, and power supply cord. The only real disadvantage to this is it is not as fast as the solution above because you have to make sure the electricity has dispersed.
And finally if you still can't find a solution I suggest using Google. But if you were smart enough you would have probably used it already.
So one day you are messing around with your computer, and you come across something called BIOS. You tinker with it, and decide to save it to see if you've made your computer any better! Well as soon as you save it, when rebooting you are given a black screen. OH NO! Its not booting up!
Don't fear. Because there is a way to reset BIOS (thank god that's avalable).
1.) Now if you haven't already, shutdown your computer and switch your power supply from on to off (I/O).
2.) Open your case and locate your BIOS battery. If you don't know what those looks like. Here's a picture
(It should look similar to this)3.) Now locate the 3 pin jumper by the battery and replace it into the other opposite pins. For example, lets say the jumper is in pins 1 and pins 2. While your computer is off, remove it from those pins, and replace it back in pins 2 and pins 3. Power your computer back up, notice it does not boot up, just is powering the bios chip to reset, wait 10 or more seconds, and then replace the jumper back into pins 1 and 2. (It should look like this, however you may all have different motherboards so it may be in a section with other pins such as speakers, or something else.)
Wait, so Keyreaper, all I have to do is, move the pin over, turn it on, wait a few seconds, then put it back where it was in the first place?
Exactly! If done correctly, after replacing the pins the computer should boot up as normal, it may go though a systems check or some other thing of the sort, then boot up to your OS!
But Keyreaper I tried what you said to do, and it still hasn't worked.
Well there are some alternative solutions, one of them is to remove the BIOS batter (picture above) and remove the power supply cord. Then hold your power button to drain your motherboard and everything else of power, I'd also do it one more time to make sure, and if you want to be even more sure, you can wait a whole day so all the energy is lost. After doing the selected steps. You just replace the battery, and power supply cord. The only real disadvantage to this is it is not as fast as the solution above because you have to make sure the electricity has dispersed.
And finally if you still can't find a solution I suggest using Google. But if you were smart enough you would have probably used it already.
Hope this solved your problem!!!