Clearing Your Pc's Cmos (Bios) Settings - HP Vectra XE320 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 or F8 just after the computer powers-on. Refer to page 30.
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.
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