BIOS/CMOS ?

[shu-hi]

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
Processor: AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, AMD64 Family 21 Model 16 Stepping 1
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 5602 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7640G, 512 Mb
Hard Drives: C: 569 GB (512 GB Free); 😧 25 GB (3 GB Free);
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 184B
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Disabled
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I have watched several videos on how to do this and some say just remove the silver battery on your MB for 5 minutes and then replace it and reboot the computer.

Other videos say, locate the silver battery on your MB and right next to it you should see a very small jumper. Just pull straight up on the jumper to remove it and wait a few minutes and then replace the jumper to the original position you found it in and reboot the computer. 

And yet other videos say to simply go into your BIOS by tapping a special key as your computer is booting-up and that will allow you to enter the BIOS settings and select the option that says "Restore you BIOS to it's original settings" and then select Save and Exit.

My question is this: do all of these methods accomplish the same thing.

BTW, I don't need to do this right now but would like to learn how to do this if I would need to some day. Just trying to learn some of this stuff.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

On your model, there is no jumper. 

Jumpers or clear CMOS buttons are usually found on desktop PC's not notebooks.

So, for some reason if you need to completely clear the CMOS, you would have to remove the real time clock (RTC) battery.

You would find the procedure do do that in the service manual for your model.

If you just need to set the BIOS to its defaults, there is a menu in the BIOS to do that, and you would not need to remove the CMOS battery.

[shu-hi]

Thanks alot Paul

One quick question...

I understand why and what happens when I would reset the BIOS but don't know much about what is saved in the CMOS and why someone would need to reset the CMOS? The BIOS and CMOS are two separate things, right?

Your insite into this would be appreciated.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.