Reseting CMOS

Wavey

Evening all,
Quick Quiz....

Does reseting the cmos jumpers wipe the software off ur harddrive? Or is ok to move them without making any sort of preparations??

I was adviced to do this by Creative to sort a graphics card problem..

Cheers

phaxx

Moved to tech, please read the hw tweaking charter.

No, it won't erase any data from the hard disks.
You shouldn't need to prepare at all, just swap it around, press the power button, swap them back, and power on. Should be fine from there. You may have to go into the BIOS to set up a few little things again like the CPU speed or whatnot, but it's nothing to worry about.

Wavey

Thanks phax


So I:

power down
switch the jumpers
power up
power down
swap back and power up

just wanna really make sure !!!

phaxx

Thats it. Before you touch anything, make sure you ground yourself (touch the metal of the case) and when you power up after swapping the jumper, nothing will happen - thats normal.

I'm not even sure one needs to hit the power button after swapping them, but I always have.

Wavey

Cheers phax

I think i can handle that

You dont know where i could get a S-video to vga adapter in dublin?

phaxx

I believe they're commonly called "VGA boxes" and they cost 50 quid or more. Not sure, I'll leave that for someone else to answer.