Clr_cmos(clearing cmos jumper)

[munkey37129]

Hello to everyone,
ok newcomer here,
I am making my 1st go and building my 1st pc and have a question and to all the experts here it's more than likley a stupid 1, but here it goes
in the manual it says use the jumper to clear the cmos values.
to clear the cmosvalues place a jumper cap on the two pins temporarily short the two pins. ok i looked at the motherboard at the pin they are talking about (next to the batt) and dont see a jumper on the pins is ths something that you only do if you want to clear the cmos?
motherboard is the GA-M61PME-S2SP I ma be wrong but from what I have read and wathched on video it looks like to me that you would just install all your componets in the case and plug everything up to the m/b
add memory the boot. but like I said I may be wrong.
thanks for any help you can give me.
Thanks Munkey37129

 

[lok]

Don't lose sleep over it. The CMOS RAM is where all your BIOS settings are stored. Most people never have to clear their CMOS - that is only necessary if for some reason some of the BIOS settings are weird enough to mess up something else.

For instance, if you tried overclocking your CPU but set the clock so high that the CPU fails, you may need to clear the CMOS since the BIOS won't restart at that CPU clock speed. In that case, you'd need one of those jumpers to connect the two pins for 5-10 seconds. Alternatively, you could remove the little CMOS battery for that amount of time. None of that applies to a 'normal build', so just ignore it for now.

 

[munkey37129]

Great Thanks for the info as you can tell I have never done this before but really want to get it to building my own pc it just seem like the cheaper way to go.
so was I right about the building of a pc is just to install m/b cpu, heat sink and fan then hd ,memory dvd drive then just plug everything to motherboard?

 

[lok]

Well, there are also case power and reset buttons, LEDs, fans, power supply wiring, and so forth. But I guess you knew that anyway. Just follow the info in your mono's manual and you'll be fine.

 

[munkey37129]

yea I know about that stuff too I was just tring to keep it short.
but thanks for the help I guess you prob built many pc's?

 

[lok]

A few. I also worked many years in the semiconductor industry.

 

[bgd73]

there is many reaosns to clear a cmos. semiconductor people get confused at this...
probably the same group of weirdos that thnk capacitors do something...