What happens if I short the clear-cmos jumper and turn the power on?

[Gnufsh]

I did this on an old mobo. Is it toast?

-Dan

 

[o770]

what you mean?

when you clear the cmos you are resetting all the bios settings to the default, and clearing some stuff like passwords and date entries on most of the mainboards. this wont damage the card.

 

[iggybaseball]

I did this on an old mobo. Is it toast?

-Dan [/QUOTE
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WELL does it work?

 

[IFMU]

Was the power on when you shorted the bios? Or did you reset the jumper then turn the power on?

 

[Gnufsh]

The power ws on. I put the jumper in then cleear position, did not change it back, and turned the power on.

 

[fuzzba11]

I've killed a board, maybe two, by doing this, although that's not the case for all boards. You're just killing the BIOS, so you can flash that if you have another motherboard.

 

[Monaco]

It depends on the board, I think. I've killed two different Abit boards by doing that- not just scrambled-BIOS dead, they were dead for good.

My current board, a Soyo, seems to be protected against it- I've sat and hammered the ON switch a few times before I realized my mistake and flipped that CMOS CLR jumper back, and it still works fine.

Only way to know for sure is to try it!

 

[FireMogle]

I accidentally did it on mine, it didnt seem to affect it.