Question on Jumperless Mobos

[Anon19]

some background info. Back in the old days when I bought my first computer, to change the multiplier settings and FSB settings you had to use jumpers. Well, the thing is when I set something too high sometimes it won't boot. To get it to boot all I had to do was set the jumpers back to a lower setting. Easy.

However, I bought a regular MSI K7T Pro2a (i'm a poor bastard who can't afford new shiznit) came last week. Haven't setted it up yet cause those bastards at Krex.com won't ship my 850 T-bird, last time I buy from them. Well, what I want to know is if I set it too high and it doesn't boot, how am I suppose to get back to the Bios?

 

[bacillus]

usually there are a couple of pins you short on the m/board to clear the bios settings. removing the battery temporarily does the same job!
your bios should then be at factory settings!

 

[Anon19]

cool thanks, i read that in the manual, but had to make sure.

 

[Bill Kunert]

On my MSI6163Pro you hit F10 during boot and it will reset the bios to default settings. Easier than clearing it with the jumper.
Bill

 

[ZeroBurn]

there's more then enough adaquete safeguards in case you set it to something you can't boot at. you can (1) use a jumper to clear the CMOS, or (2) hold a certain key that'll boot it safely when you power up (insert key), or (3) remove the CMOS battery which'll clear it. also the cmos resets after i think 4 resets or so on some mobos, i think the old abits had that so you just had to hit reset a few times. depends on the mobo really.