Microsoft W840DI manual Resetting Your System, Before You Begin, Users Guide, Page

Before You Begin User's Guide

1.11 Resetting Your System

Your system provides you an overclock option whereby you can choose to increase the overall system performance by overclocking the speed of the CPU processor.

If you have chosen to overclock and are experiencing system’s instability, you can perform the steps below to reset your system:

•Press the power button at least for four seconds to power off system.

•Take a paper clip, bend its end, and have it poked into this CMOS reset switch as shown below. This effectively resets all CMOS settings to factory default settings: including and especially resetting the system back to without overclocking.

•Press the Power Button to boot up system. Press [F2] during the system boot-up to get into the BIOS Setups.

•Go into the Main Setup to reset time and date.

Power Button

CMOS Reset Switch

Paper-clip

There is even a quicker way to reset your system, if you fail to boot up the system (especially when it is caused by system overclocking). System registers your successive boot up failures. When it comes to the fourth successive boot up failure, system would reset the CMOS settings before proceeding into the boot up. This effectively resets all CMOS settings to factory default settings: including and especially resetting the system back to without overclocking. Then go into BIOS to reset time and date as described above.

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