Setting The Jumpers - Gateway E-420 Maintaining & Troubleshooting

Setting the jumpers

The system board jumper (J7B1) lets you clear passwords, set the
processor/bus speed, and recover the BIOS. The table below shows the
settings required to perform those tasks, and the following text provides
step-by-step instructions for each mode.
J7B1 Mode
Normal
Configure
Recovery
The following figure shows the location of the jumper on the system board.
Jumper Setting
1-2
2-3
No jumper
Action When Set
Normal operation
Adds a Maintenance
menu to Setup utility with
options to clear
passwords and set
processor/bus speeds
Causes system to
attempt BIOS update or
recovery from diskette
3
1
Important!
Some processors are
designed so that your
system can automatically
detect the processor speed.
For other processors, you
must manually enable the
system to detect the
processor speed. See
page 27 for more
information.
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