clearing a CMOS on a motherboard with a RTC

[XofCDe3rd]

I posted a thread earlier on trying to Clear CMOS on GA-586ATS. I got a very good response thank you...but now I have another problem

The motherboard has an RTC(real time clock I would not know how to remove this to clear CMOS, from what I see it is hard to take off or is not to be taken off at all.

its mother board manual which I downloaded from a particular site says that jumper 10 closed will clear hardware settings, would this be the jumper to use as there is no other clear CMOS jumper. If so I tried it without success.

 

[franklin97355]

What is it you are trying to do? You can reset the clock from within the BIOS settings and if you do like the manual says you should have cleared the cmos which is what it sounds like you want to do.

 

[XofCDe3rd]

The thing is the machine has a CMOS password on it and owner can not remember the password.

 

[diogenes10]

Sometimes removing the battery and letting the machine sit for a few hours will clear things out.

 

[diogenes10]

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=156

a win98 possibility (not something ive tried, just turned it up searching)

 

[SYAR2003]

With respect to the Award BIOS, the "AWARD_SW" (use without quotes) and (is is case sensitive) password should even override a set password! If not, you may also want try j262 as the password.

Otherwise disconnect the main power
Take out the battery for atleast 30-40 minutes.


SYAR