Clearing Your Pc's Cmos (Bios) Settings - HP Brio ba300 Troubleshooting Manual

Clearing Your PC's CMOS (BIOS) Settings

CMOS is a chip that keeps a record of installed components when your PC is turned off. Clearing CMOS
settings may help you resolve some common problems. For example:
when your PC cannot detect an expansion card or other device
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when you are having problems booting the PC.
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You can clear CMOS settings:
by using your PC's BIOS Setup program
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by opening your PC and clearing CMOS manually.
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Clearing CMOS Using the Setup Program
If you are able to gain access to your PC's Setup program, use the following simple method to clear
CMOS settings:
1 Restart your PC and press F2 when the message Press F2 to enter Setup appears on screen. Refer to page
25.
2 From within the Setup program, press F9 to load Setup defaults.
3 Press F10 to exit Setup saving changes.
Note If you load CMOS default settings from within the Setup program, this will not clear passwords.
Manually Clearing CMOS and Passwords
CMOS is a chip that keeps a record of installed components when your HP PC is turned off. Clearing
CMOS settings may help you resolve the following problems:
when your PC cannot detect a device
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when you are having problems booting the PC
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Clearing Passwords
Note The instructions that follow concern models with two jumpers. Some models have a single jumper that is used to clear both CMOS and
passwords.
To clear passwords only:
1 Disconnect the power cord and remove the PC's cover. Refer to page 29.
2 Move the Clear Password jumper to the Clear Password position shown above.
Default position
Clear CMOS/Passwords position
Clear Password (J8) jumper
Clear CMOS/Passwords (J6) jumper
If You Have a Problem
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