CMOS

Trying to reset the bios for the toshiba c55-b5382 and was told I needed to take out the cmos but I can't locate it could someone help me with this please.

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Where can I find the cmos battery on my Toshiba Satellite p850 Won't boot. No lights no action. Tried to discharge come battery but this is my next option

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So I've had my laptop (HP Probook 450 G0, i5 3230, 8 gb RAM, swapped 1tb hdd for 128 gb ssd, amd 8750M) for about 2 years now, and recently, everytime it shuts down, and I start it back up, the computer will start, fan will after few seconds start to run, but the screen doesn't. After pressing...

Hi guys, I just took a leap, open up and upgraded my Asus A42JK from i5-520M to i7-840QM. Cleaned up and changed the fan and CMOS battery too. I put it back together, made sure everything is wired up properly as I took them out when disassembling. I reinstalled by HDD and RAM and tried...

My PC is also not detecting bootable pen drive.... And I have tried everything. Is this the problem of CMOS battery???,because my date and time is not set!!

I have an interesting problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. My Asus Q302L laptop was in perfect working condition until yesterday, when it refused to start when I pressed the power button. It has not had any spills, falls, etc. I did a hard reboot - opened the back of the laptop and...

Hi guys I recently opened up my 5 years old HP Pavilion DV7 - Intel Core i5-2410M, 8GB to clean out the fan and reapply thermal paste to the CPU. So after I was done cleaning and I tested to see if it turns on. It turned on but I got a screen saying something about CMOS reset and I actually...

directly after power on screen says"gateway" and "press f2 to go to set up" when i press f2 it asks for a password that i do not know. if i wait a second it says " an operating system was not found" conventional cmos reset techniques don't work -soldered in batt/no dip switch/no jumpers/ or...

Cannot find the CMOS battery on this motherboard?? Any help/guidance greatly appreciated

OK… Work on wooden laptop proceeds. The base has been - though is being modified, and the screen covering. Yet to fix the screen mounting to the base or to build the keyboard casing. Given the old U135dx which this will be based on is in pieces I figured I may as well replace the CMOS battery...

Hello. My Lenovo G530 laptop CMOS battery was "tack welded" to tabs on the motherboard. Virtually the entire laptop has to be disassembled to get to it, in order to replace it. When I levered the battery from its "tacked" tabs, it shot across the table and onto the floor, not allowing me to...

Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite C55 B5353 that I bought a year ago. Win 8 initially, installed Win 10 almost immediately. Some time ago it had some weird power issues (turning off abruptly when not on AC power) and now it can't stay on much longer than 10 mins before abruptly shutting down...

I have a dell inspiron 7720 (windows 8 originally windows 10 now) and i wanted to reset it because a program was not installing. So I got started and I started to reset it keeping my files and it failed. I tried again and this time making permanent reset (I backed up my files). I went to the...

If I leave the aforementioned lptop off mains power and the battery runs down, I get the error message that there was a CMOS checksum error. If I press F1, then the laptop boots up but time/date is reset. On desktops, I'd guess that this means the CMOS battery needs replacing. All my Googling...

Hello everyone. Laptop: Asus K55VJ OS: Windows 7 I am unable to boot my laptop. I must highlight one of the two options to allow windows to boot. However, laptops keyboard is broken and I have installed different drivers to disable it completely. I have been using external usb keyboard with...

Hi, my Acer laptop switches on but does not boot at all. The screen is black, as in no backlight, no cursor, no OS, nothing visible. No signs of life on screen. No HDD light. Barely any sound (maybe faint sound of power on though) I shone a light on the screen just to be sure and still...

I need to know where to find the cmos battery on a Toshiba satellite m505-s4940 can anybody help me out on this?

TOSHIBA SATELLITE S50 - B Part NO. PSPQ6C - 025001 ----------------------- I turn on the laptop and it keeps on prompting "TOSHIBA Leading Innovation" over and over again.. 1. I removed the Laptop Battery. 2. Put the battery back in. 3. Turn the Laptop. 4. This time, I get another popup...