You can reset your PC's BIOS settings to their factory defaults by selecting the Restore Defaults option within BIOS or by removing the CMOS battery from an unplugged computer for about five minutes.

Discover how a simple CMOS reset can resolve common PC hardware problems like black screen, bad overclocks, undervolting, ...

If you've locked yourself out of your Compaq Presario by an unknown CMOS password, you can reset the password -- along with all other CMOS settings -- by removing the computer's backup battery for ...

CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor and despite its size, it does much more than you think. Let’s clarify a few things first. A CMOS chip is vastly different than the CMOS battery ...

First when I was getting BIOS reset I thought the battery was bad - so I changed the battery and there seems to be some problem since every time I unplug the computer it loses all the ...

Frustratingly common for PC users, boot problems can stem from a variety of software and hardware glitches. A particularly frequent issue is when a Windows computer ...

IIRC there was a problem with some revisions/cases of ECS K7S5As quickly eating up batteries. Or perhaps the quality of batteries (I don't remember ATM, do a google for "ECS K7S5A BIOS ...

In his line of work, Instructables user [Harrymatic] sees a lot of Toshiba laptops come across his desk, some of which are protected with a BIOS password. Typically, in order to make it past the BIOS ...

In this week’s installment of Tech 911, a reader writes in to find some clarity, not solve an issue with a broken device or failing hardware. Said reader was probably poking around his motherboard a ...