Bios Clock won't stop!

garred · 28-10-2005 11:40am #1

Have a Dell machine which had a password on the bios. Removed the battery for a couple of days and went back into the bios but the clock won't stop spinning. Even if I try to manually put in the time it won't. Changed the day and date but it still goes. Any suggestions?

stevenmu · 28-10-2005 11:42am

Spinning ?

garred · 28-10-2005 11:46am

Sorry..my head is spinning. It just keeps going up in time, you know if you are manually changing it and keep your finger on the left/right arrow on the keyboard. It as if this is happening but there are no keys pushed down on the keyboard. Restored to factory defaults, etc but it keeps going (the time that is). This also is causing the day/month to change.

galwaydude18 · 28-10-2005 12:36pm

try running antivirus and anti spyware on your pc! There could be something there! Also it that doesn't work reset your bois on the motherboard! It's a jumper on the mb so you may well need to refer to you mb manual. if neither of those suggestions work try a new battery and then if that doesn't help I reckon you'l have to format your pc!

garred · 28-10-2005 12:40pm

Sorry Galwaydude got it working again, thanks anyway.

galwaydude18 · 28-10-2005 1:10pm

how did you manage to get it working? Just curious to know what caused the problem!

garred · 28-10-2005 1:14pm

Don't know what caused it but removed battery again for about 20 mins then put back in and viola!!! Might have something to do with the fact that I left it out for about 3 days first time, it may have caused some internal issue being this long without power.

galwaydude18 · 28-10-2005 1:24pm

sure the capacitors would store up electrical charge when it is unpluged and when it's unpluged the would start to discharge therefore provided a very small amount of electrical current the mb! Correct me if I am wrong!

StickyMcGinty · 28-10-2005 5:43pm

is that how to get by the bios password? one of the girlfriends mates laptop was stolen in spain, and when she got it back it had a bios password on it, and she havin terrible trouble trying to get through to dell from spain!

angelofdeath · 28-10-2005 5:51pm

yeah removing the cmos battery resets the bios therefore removing the bios password, but your windows password will still be there and laptop cmos' are usually pretty hard to get to anyway

StickyMcGinty · 28-10-2005 5:52pm

cmos battery? i take it thats inside the laptop, dont really want to crack it open to be honest!

Capt'n Midnight · 28-10-2005 6:08pm

Desktops tend to have a separate battery (watch type usually) and if you remove this AND unplug the mains overnight it should loose all settings (older machines only took a few minutes)

Because Laptops are so thievable their BIOS passwords can't be opened easily - some have hidden back doors to override the passwords , but IIRC Dell demand a reciept or fax with confirmation before they will give you the password for your laptop, and even then it doesnt always work in which case you are looking at a new motherboard !

Stephen · 28-10-2005 6:16pm

Yeah, and for those who don't know, most desktop PC motherboards have a jumper you can set to instantly reset the bios, so you won't have to wait for ages.
Never have tried doing anything like this with a laptop.

peepsbates · 28-10-2005 6:35pm

Stephen wrote:

Yeah, and for those who don't know, most desktop PC motherboards have a jumper you can set to instantly reset the bios, so you won't have to wait for ages.
Never have tried doing anything like this with a laptop.

cmos jumper, remove the battery then swap the jumper,swap it back then put ure battery back in, should solve it

astrofool · 28-10-2005 7:14pm

u generally don't need to remove the battery to do this.

MrVestek · 28-10-2005 9:51pm

peepsbates wrote:

cmos jumper, remove the battery then swap the jumper,swap it back then put ure battery back in, should solve it

Erm. That has to be the most retarded advice anyone on here has ever given. If you swap the jumper and swap it back it automatically cuts the power from the battery to the bios chip thus resetting everything back to factory settings. Removing the battery will also do this but... why in good god's name would you do these two things to at the same time which BOTH, SEPERATELY will do the same thing?

The mind boggles.

peepsbates · 29-10-2005 11:21am

Achilles wrote:

Erm. That has to be the most retarded advice anyone on here has ever given. If you swap the jumper and swap it back it automatically cuts the power from the battery to the bios chip thus resetting everything back to factory settings. Removing the battery will also do this but... why in good god's name would you do these two things to at the same time which BOTH, SEPERATELY will do the same thing?

The mind boggles.

jees calm down there man i got it from my mobo manual and thought it might help, obviously i was wrong, very srry!!! achilles did that ever happen to ya? eh? make a mistake

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