location of cmos battery on a Asus Q10 motherboard

[rudog311]

I was told from a somewhat computer guy that to bypass my master password on my Asus Q550LF was to lift out the cmos battery to bypass the master password cause my enter key wI'll not work.

 

[Nordein]

It should be a giant round battery, like you would find in a wrist watch. An easier thing to do is put a screwdriver on the positive and negative end of the battery and hold them there for 3 seconds to reset the saved settings. I see some batteries for laptops could be taped on, so look for the giant piece of tape, if you do not see it, then look for a round wrist watch type battery.

 

[rudog311]

It should be a giant round battery, like you would find in a wrist watch. An easier thing to do is put a screwdriver on the positive and negative end of the battery and hold them there for 3 seconds to reset the saved settings. I see some batteries for laptops could be taped on, so look for the giant piece of tape, if you do not see it, then look for a round wrist watch type battery.

 

[rudog311]

The for the quick answer. I was looking past it for about 45 min. By the way, your solution to clear the cmos worked. I'm learning something every day.

 

[Nordein]

Not a problem! I had a similar issue about 8 months ago to, my cmos saved settings kept my newly built PC from booting entirely then I did some research and found out that shorting out the battery with some screw drivers works perfectly.