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Bios not booting
Name: DamionCain Date: December 20, 2005 at 07:20:10 Pacific OS: na CPU/Ram: na
Comment:
Ok, I pulled out my Dell Dimention 4100 to rebuild for a firned and realized that I forgot the BIOS password.. after three tried it locked me out.
Now if I even turn the box on I get nothing.. nada, nill.. I can hear the HD spinning, I see a few lights on the MB but nothin g on monitor.. not even a lonly curser...
Is that just the box locking up? How do I reset the MB?
Name: Badboy Date: December 20, 2005 at 08:28:08 Pacific
Reply:
Try to set the BIOS to default by removing the MOBO battery for a while or by jumper if it has one.
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: December 20, 2005 at 08:35:37 Pacific
Reply:
You can either open it up & look for the ClearCMOS jumper...or you can remove the CMOS battery...or you can use a program called KILLCMOS
www.majorgeeks.com/download2969.html
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Response Number 3
Name: DamionCain Date: December 20, 2005 at 08:48:30 Pacific
Reply:
cant run any programs if it is not booting at all..
As for the batery... I took it out for about 40 min... no change... I will try having it out for several hours possibly even overnight.
Is it possible for a bios lock out to totaly prevent any kind of boot or would it normaly give you some error..
With the fact that nothing is happening at all I am worried that somehow I fried the MB... which would suck...
There is a single jumper with 3 pins.. I tried moving it over but no good.. I did read somewhere that I should totaly remove the jumper and try that..
thoughts?
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: December 20, 2005 at 09:08:17 Pacific
Reply:
The BIOS will clear in a matter of seconds...you do not have to leave the battery out for hours. But you DO have to unplug the power cord for the BIOS to clear!
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Response Number 5
Name: DamionCain Date: December 20, 2005 at 09:17:45 Pacific
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hummm not comforting.... it was unplugged.
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Response Number 6
Name: Zenith Date: December 20, 2005 at 11:04:29 Pacific
Reply:
Dimension 4100 Single jumper is located forward of PCI slots. 1. Jump pins 2-3. 2. Start and down computer. 3. Reset jumper to pins 1-2.
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