Question I cannot enter the BIOS ?

[RCC 1]

I made a big mistake in setting device initialization to disabled and setting delay to zero in my BIOS.
Taking out my CMOS battery and placing it back in is my last resort.
Any helpful ideas?

 

[Misgar]

Why are you concerned about removing the CMOS battery?

Is it because it's hidden under a large 4-slot GPU and you cannot release the latch on the PCIe slot to remove the graphics card?

 

[RCC 1]

If I take out the CMOS battery and then place it back in I lose my BIOS settings. I thought that was understood. Removed by Moderator.

I will remove the power cable to my system drive.

 

[geofelt]

The purpose of a cmos battery is to preserve the bios settings when the pc is not plugged in.
Removing a cmos battery is no big deal unless you have some important bios settings but can't remember what they were.
As an alternative, there may be a clear cmos button on your motherboard, or there may be a shorting clip to do the same thing.

 

[scout_03]

name and model of your motherboard you might not have other option that removing and replace cmos battery to acces bios .

 

[RCC 1]

I now think all I need to do is disconnect the power cable to my system drive and I will be able to enter BIOS.
Geofelt I am 65 and I can not remember all my bios settings.
Some mornings when I wake up I am doing good to remember my name.

In my ASUS mobo bios I could have saved my BIOS settings but I never thought it would be necessary. People learn from their mistakes and hopefully that does not happen very often.

I am using the ASUS Z97-AR mobo from many years ago.

 

[DSzymborski]

There's nothing magical about BIOS settings. If the settings that differ from the default matter in your use, you'll figure it out quickly in your use and make the necessary changes and if the settings that differ from the default don't matter in your use, than they don't matter.

 

[RCC 1]

I will disconnect the power cable from my system drive and in doing so I save my BIOS settings.

Tom started in 96 and Anandtech started in 97. I remember those events very well.

In the early 90s I connected to internet using a 14K analog modem. Using a BBS. It was all in text and you could only connect to 3 or 4 universities.

Then eventually corporate greed kicked in and you have today's WWB. /sad

 

[Misgar]

I built my first 1200/75 modem from a Wireless World design in 1985. Soldered all the components on to the board. I used Prestel in those days (pre Internet).

In 1992 I remember dialling into a site in Belgium on a landline (at international call rates) to download some code.

Met a few good mates on bulletin boards and in person at events. Those were the days.

Back on subject. For many years, I've continued a discipline learned at work and keep A4 hardback lab notebooks, in which I write down details of all the computers I'm working on. This can prove useful when I return to a machine after several years absence.

I make a note of all the changes made to the default settings in any BIOS. That way, when the CMOS battery goes flat and the computer won't boot, I look in my library and retrieve all the settings. It saves a lot of guess work and head scratching when things go wrong.

On a final note, if you're pulling the power cable on a system drive whilst it's still running, data corruption may occur. Sorry if I've misunderstood and you're doing this with the computer switched off.