Can't clear CMOS

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Fish Taco Joe Schmuckatelli

Stupid question on my part perhaps -- we had a customer come in with
four systems he wanted wiped and reloaded. Two of them are built
around Asus MEW motherboards, and both have bootup/CMOS passwords.
So, I did the usual thing -- unplugged the system, even pulled the
motherboard battery (although leaving it in didn't help either) and
shorted the two solder points labeled CLRTC. No dice;
date/time/password are still intact. The bloody CMOS refuses to
clear.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?


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"Fish Taco Joe" Schmuckatelli said:
Stupid question on my part perhaps -- we had a customer come in with
four systems he wanted wiped and reloaded. Two of them are built
around Asus MEW motherboards, and both have bootup/CMOS passwords.
So, I did the usual thing -- unplugged the system, even pulled the
motherboard battery (although leaving it in didn't help either) and
shorted the two solder points labeled CLRTC. No dice;
date/time/password are still intact. The bloody CMOS refuses to
clear.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?


-------------------------------------------------+-------------------
"One World; One Web; One Program." -- Microsoft | OS/2 Warp
| Solid like Linux
"Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Führer." -- Hitler | Easy like Windows
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------

Use your bandwidth. If you don't, it'll go stale.

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box
crashed... oh, wait. He does.

I Am Not A Number... Um...except for my TCP/IP address.

If you can read this .sig, you're too damn close.

Save a cow. Eat a vegetarian!

Dark Days in Human History: Hiroshima'45 Chernobyl'86 Windows'95

Proud member of the Signature is Longer Than The Post Association
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cmos clearing you don,t need to reo\move the battery just move the cmos
clear jumper from normal to clear it is normal around the battery it may
take few minutes to clear the cmos you run a rise of damaging the cmos or
bios chip I have seen it happen before .
 
cmos clearing you don,t need to reo\move the battery just move the cmos
clear jumper from normal to clear it is normal around the battery it may
take few minutes to clear the cmos you run a rise of damaging the cmos or
bios chip I have seen it happen before .
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Were it that simple, I'd have done so. These boards, however, *don't
have* pins to move a jumper back and forth... merely two solder points
one is supposed to short together.

As for the original problem, removing the battery and letting the
system sit for two or three hours eventually resolved the problem.


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| Solid like Linux
"Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Führer." -- Hitler | Easy like Windows
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------

Use your bandwidth. If you don't, it'll go stale.

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box
crashed... oh, wait. He does.

I Am Not A Number... Um...except for my TCP/IP address.

If you can read this .sig, you're too damn close.

Save a cow. Eat a vegetarian!

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