bios reset button on a dell

darragh o meara

I'm looking for the biios reset button on a dell inspiron 8500 laptop. It stopped booting up after I took off the cover of the ram bay.

cregser

The dell website is the best place to look mate. Last week I checked their site for documentation on my 8 year old Dell tower pc.

You'll most likely be looking for a jumper rather than a button. If you can't find that, you could just temporarily remove the battery (small round silver one) from the motherboard and that would reset the bios.

But I recommend searching the Dell site.

Gone West

depends on what dell you have. I know some of them you only have to hold a certain key combo to reset the bios, but yeah hes right check the site.

astrofool

alot of laptops use the laptop battery to keep the bios settings.

Jaeger

did this only a couple of days ago to test something, on a desktop it's a wee jumper located near enough the battery on the mobo, dunno where I'd start with a laptop, never had a crack at opening one of em tbh.

rubadub

Jaeger wrote:

it's a wee jumper located near enough the battery on the mobo,

its there on the few dells i have opened too