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A7N8X Deluxe bafflement
"rstlne" wrote in message ... You have to remove the battery on Asus motherboards to clear the CMOS (as per the manual) otherwise there is a real chance of blowing a diode on the board (I know this from personal experience when the original manuals for the A7V333 instructed you to keep the battery in position) If you have attempted to clear the CMOS without removing the battery first then that could be the cause of your problem. I think someone told you fibs that 3v batter probably couldnt create the current required to break down a diode anyhow, I didnt look at this board in detail and i'll not pull it out to trace the tracks, but you normally have 1 jumper that puts the battery in line with the cmos chip and 1 battery that will go in line with a leakage resistor (or whate ver you want to call it) and the battery shouldnt be an issue when clearing the cmos, unplugging the power supply might be an issue in todays systems, I do power mine down to make sure as I have no clue what rails are power'd when the system is turned off.. the diode COULD burn out if you decided to turn the computer on with the jumper in the clear cmos position.. No not fibs - it was personal experience. However, I did have my wires crossed (so to speak). To clear the CMOS in the original manual, the instruction was to cap the CLR_RTC pins with the power on and battery in place. This blew the diode. The revised instructions were to remove the battery and power and then cap the pins. (Pity the revision came out after I'd RMA'd 2 boards though :-) |
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