What motherboards have a button for clearing the CMOS?

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Now it should be a lot easier to clear CMOS... It was a pain in the @$$ taking the jumper off of the pins on my old mobo (AOpen Socket 370) because it was right next to the IDE cable slot, so there wasn't really much room to maneauver my fingers around the jumper -_-; Just out of curiousity, what other mobos besides the Neo4 Platinum/SLI have a button instead of a jumper for clearing the CMOS?

*EDIT*
Crap, should this be in the motherboards forum? -_-;

 

[imported_Kensai]

None that I know of.

 

[n7]

That's awesome.

I would so love to have a button to reset cmos instead of using teh tweezers every time i need to reset.

The Abit Fatality one also does i believe.

 

[Mrvile]

Whoa sweet! That'll be my next motherboard :thumbsup:

I reset my CMOS most of the time through the BIOS unless it doesn't boot up.

 

[Arcanedeath]

the DFI NF4 series all have a button to reset the cmos and power on the system.

 

[vailr]

The updated Abit AN8 "Fatal1ty" board includes a front case "uGuru" control panel,
including a flip up covered CMOS reset switch. Also has USB & audio ports,
and a temperature monitoring LCD.
http://www.abit-usa.com/innovations/guru_panel.php

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: vailr
The updated Abit AN8 "Fatal1ty" board includes a front case "uGuru" control panel,
including a flip up covered CMOS reset switch. Also has USB & audio ports,
and a temperature monitoring LCD.

My only question is WHY would you have to clear the CMOS so darn much??? I've been working on PC's since 1980 and I have only had to do this maybe 8 or 10 times in all those years.. ???????

You could put a Clear CMOS switch on any PC that has the jumper pins anyway. Just get a small toggle switch SPST and the wire and leads from a front panel LED. connect the leads from the switch and place the connector onto the CMOS Clear pins on the main board, this is if you only have two pins for the clear CMOS Jumper. If you had 3 pins where you actually have to move the jumper from pins 1 and 2 to pins 2 and 3 then you will need a 3 wire connector and a SPDT switch... Just place the switch somewhere like in the back of the PC where it will not get activated by accident.

pcgeek11

 

[w00t]

my shuttle doesnt

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
the DFI NF4 series all have a button to reset the cmos and power on the system.

no they have a RESET button, not a "reset/clear CMOS" button.

 

[SuperFreaky]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11

Originally posted by: vailr
The updated Abit AN8 "Fatal1ty" board includes a front case "uGuru" control panel,
including a flip up covered CMOS reset switch. Also has USB & audio ports,
and a temperature monitoring LCD.

My only question is WHY would you have to clear the CMOS so darn much??? I've been working on PC's since 1980 and I have only had to do this maybe 8 or 10 times in all those years.. ???????

You could put a Clear CMOS switch on any PC that has the jumper pins anyway. Just get a small toggle switch SPST and the wire and leads from a front panel LED. connect the leads from the switch and place the connector onto the CMOS Clear pins on the main board, this is if you only have two pins for the clear CMOS Jumper. If you had 3 pins where you actually have to move the jumper from pins 1 and 2 to pins 2 and 3 then you will need a 3 wire connector and a SPDT switch... Just place the switch somewhere like in the back of the PC where it will not get activated by accident.

pcgeek11

You haven't overclocked a PC in all those years?

 

[Some1ne]

My only question is WHY would you have to clear the CMOS so darn much??? I've been working on PC's since 1980 and I have only had to do this maybe 8 or 10 times in all those years.. ???????

1. Because when overclocking, a settings change made it so that the PC will no longer POST, so the CMOS must be manually cleared to get the system booting again.

2. Because a BIOS flash introduced new options/modified existing ones, and it is not compatible with the previous settings, so the CMOS has to be cleared for the system to work again...this has unfortunately happened several times on my MSI Neo4 Platinum, and as convenient as the "clear CMOS" button is, I would rather have the BIOS writers figure out a way to make their new BIOS "translate" the old BIOS settings. I also think I would rather have the feature (I think it's on DFI boards) the lets you save configuration profiles, and also automatically revert to the last stable profile (without clearing the CMOS) when a configuration error prevents the system from POST'ing.

 

[d2arcturus]

Some of the new ASUS boards have C.P.R.

 

[rise]

just make your own.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: rise4310
just make your own.

I was just thinking of doing this. Just take a jumper or something and fix it with a switch. Shouldn't be too hard.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: n7
That's awesome.

I would so love to have a button to reset cmos instead of using teh tweezers every time i need to reset.

The Abit Fatality one also does i believe.

OMG i know exactely what you mean i end up having to take the NIC out aswell (not using on board Network port),

 

[Varun]

If I had to reset my CMOS that often I would just make a switch as others have suggested. It would be so easy, anyone could do it really. Though it would cost somewhere in the 50-100 cent area

 

[LTC8K6]

Most of the computers I have built used the insert key to set the CMOS to defaults. You held it down during boot.

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Varun
If I had to reset my CMOS that often I would just make a switch as others have suggested. It would be so easy, anyone could do it really. Though it would cost somewhere in the 50-100 cent area

lol, thats a deal breaker!