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How the hell do you clear the CMOS on the P4T-E?!!! **PLEASE, someone help me out!!**

typical- i have seen the manual lying about all week. When i need to find it, I can't. I'll keep searching though.

What have you done?
 


<< typical- i have seen the manual lying about all week. When i need to find it, I can't. I'll keep searching though. >>


I've looked all through the manual and I couldn't find where it mentioned anything about the CMOS. What happened is that I overclocked my P4 1.9GHz to 2.128GHz with no voltage adjustment. Well it went straight into Windows 2000 and everything was great. I then started to check for stability by running various QIII benches and everything ran fast and perfect, but I wasn't satisfied. I left a movie to encode for 3hrs. If it passed this test then everything was stable. Well it failed the test by dumping out an error code but Windows was still running. I then cranked up the voltage to 1.8v to stablize it. Well that is when the problems began. I POSTed but right after that it dumped out some crazy numbers and froze. Well I brought it down to 1.75v at 2GHz where it was running perfect before. Well that now didn't work because it did the same thing and dumped out crazy characters right after the post. So I dropped it back down to default (1.9GHz, 1.75v) and booted right into Windows. Well I played a little RTCW and everything was great. So overnight I left it encoding a movie. When I woke up it finished encoding the movie but I saw the HD light dimly lit but I wasn't hitting the hard drive AT ALL. So I just rebooted and BAM, here comes those crazy characters again shortly after that a hard freeze! Well that is where I am at right now. I can just make it right after the system POST but then I'm back at a hard freeze. There is only a few things that could have happened:

1. My mobo freaked out and died on me.
2. My CPU died on me ( I highly doubt it though since I barely gave it any extra voltage).
3. I need to clear the CMOS.



<< just pop the battery out for a few seconds >>


That's what I was going to do if no one here could find the CMOS jumpers for me. 😉


This is some WEIRD crap because I've NEVER killed a system by overclocking it (I don't add very much extra voltage to a CPU). 🙁
 
Look in the Manual Under Clearing Passwords. On the asus P4t board, there are 2 contacts that you short out to clear the cmos, I am guessing your board would be the same, but check the book first.
 
OK, this is the stupidest setup! To clear the CMOS you have to short two solder points! There are NO jumpers! What kind of retard came up with that? Anyway, I did that but I'm still having the same problem. It is either the CPU or mobo but I think I can only return my mobo to newegg.com because I don't think they exchange CPUs. 🙁 Well, I'll get an RMA number for it and see what happens. 🙁 This sucks!!
 
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