Newer desktop motherboards allow you to reset the BIOS settings using a dedicated jumper on the board itself. For motherboards without the jumper, you can usually accomplish the same thing by ...

Find your computer's motherboard and look for the CLRTC jumper, a set of two pins on the motherboard. The ASUS motherboard jumper abbreviation CLRTC stands for "clear real-time clock," since it's ...

The most obvious one involves going into the BIOS menu, but there are also hardware options that involve removing and reseating the CMOS battery or moving around a jumper on the motherboard.

to drain any power from the mainboard and power supply. And look for a reset jumper on the motherboard, that should set the BIOS to factory default. Are BIOSs from this era generic enough that I ...