How long leave cmos battery out

My last hope is to wait overnight or something. Oct 8, 1, 0 0. Hi, Two hours is usually enough, but it really depends on the guy that designed the MB and the size of the caps he used in the CMOS circuit.

That's what you are waiting for to discharge. Best is to locate the jumper. Try the board maker if you can find it. It disconnects the battery and shorts out the caps. Discharge is almost instantaneous. You can also short across the empty battery holder on some MBs to get a fast discharge, but only if you know what you are doing. Hope this helps a bit, Jim.

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How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. Left the battery out for about 15 minutes, put it back in, plugged everything back in, fired it up, and I'm still getting the beeps. Unplugged the slave connection to the old CDROM, should I take the battery back out and leave it out for awhile again before I try to fire it up?

Pulled the battery out again. I had everything working just fine last night before I shut everything down for the night. I had a similar problem with a video card once and the tech bloke who I know said it was a driver issue in my case, could this be the same for you? Could you boot without the drive connected then get all the updates and drivers and see if you can reconnect it with more success aftewards?

Never tried to boot a computer without a hard drive connected, what can I expect and what would that solve? Sorry, I'm just a bit PO'd about this little bit of insanity Everything was working so well last night, now this Ahh, OK I see. It wasn't working it had died according to what the guy said when he brought the PC over here.

Seems odd that connecting it would cause so much havoc. Ah well if he says it wasn't working before you got it there may well be a hardware failure invovled, but if a PC has something attached it is designed to know it should be working and will attempt to get it working, if there is something stopping it working then sometimes it just can't do anything and messes you about as it seems to of done here, if you have a spare machine and want to check the drive out try plugging it in to that machine and see if it works there, if it doesn't then it must be a fault on the drive I'd suggest, but if they don't care about it then unless you like the challenge you may as well leave it be.

Oh, I don't mind a challenge, I just don't like it when it ruins all my good work. Then it becomes a liability and can expect the dumpster as far as I'm concerned Wish I didn't have to leave this battery out so long Don't know enough about motherboard jumpers to screw with that.

There's pins sticking up all over this thing and I don't think any of them have jumpers on them, plus there's 2 little plastic blocks with switches on them, I'm afraid to touch those switches for fear of royally screwing up any chance of ever getting this thing to work right again I have this from the handbook from a cinet pc with asus p2b motherboard, doing this you reset it within a second.

I had to do this because someone had put some password on this pc, so I couldn't come into the bios. I was just looking at the manual for this Gigabyte motherboard, and according to the diagram, the switch settings on those two blocks are totally different than what the diagram says they should be But it was working fine before this little catastrophy Reset the switches according to the diagram and still got the beeps resulting in nothing.

Downloading Acrobat Reader on my 'puter now so I can look at the manual more closely. Also what BIOS? Alright kd5 lets drop back and punt here a minute.