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edwin wrote:http://support.euro.dell.com/support/ed ... #wp1061217

Most likely somewhere between the CMOS battery and the clear password jumper.

That link only has sketches of the motherboard. I need a real photograph of the motherboard.

Your problem is not an invalid CMOS setting. So short circuiting soldering points (without even knowing what they exist for there) or taking out the CMOS battery will not help. You have a corrupt BIOS. Because the PC was shut down while flashing BIOS, the new BIOS code was only partially written int...

The most obvious solution to your problem is hot-swapping your BIOS and then flashing it again. For hot-swapping, you've to find another motherboard that has the same BIOS chip as yours. The procedure consists of taking out your BIOS chip, and then plugging it into the other motherboard while the bo...

I've a system with the following configuration. Celeron 300 MHz, overclocked to 416 MHz Intel i440LX chipset Winbond W29EE011 bios chip Award BIOS version 4.51 PG Intel740 8MB AGP card. My AGP card works with i740 VGA BIOS version 212, while there are more updated version available. I downloaded the...