Mother board questoin

[grapz]

Hello, i am a newb in building comps. I'm planning to build my first comp, conroe soon , so theres a few questions i'd like to ask.

first what is POST? and do u accomplish this

2ndly what is Clear CMOS mean and how do u do it for the mobo Gigabyte DS3?

thanks

 

[Crashman]

POST is the self-test screen you see when a system boots. Sometimes it's hidden by a motherboard manufacturer's logo, or an OEM system manufacturer's logo. Normal to see in POST is the memory and drive scans.

Clear CMOS means to clear the user-progamable settings in BIOS. To do that in the DS3, you unplug the power supply from the wall jack and put a jumper across the terminals next to the battery for a few seconds.

 

[grapz]

POST is the self-test screen you see when a system boots. Sometimes it's hidden by a motherboard manufacturer's logo, or an OEM system manufacturer's logo. Normal to see in POST is the memory and drive scans.

Clear CMOS means to clear the user-progamable settings in BIOS. To do that in the DS3, you unplug the power supply from the wall jack and put a jumper across the terminals next to the battery for a few seconds.

i c and what is the use of clearing cmos?

 

[1Tanker]

POST is the self-test screen you see when a system boots. Sometimes it's hidden by a motherboard manufacturer's logo, or an OEM system manufacturer's logo. Normal to see in POST is the memory and drive scans.

Clear CMOS means to clear the user-progamable settings in BIOS. To do that in the DS3, you unplug the power supply from the wall jack and put a jumper across the terminals next to the battery for a few seconds.

i c and what is the use of clearing cmos?It sets all the BIOS settings back to default values. It's good if you've set some settings to improper values that would prevent booting up.

 

[grapz]

oh ok ic. I am still not sure how one would perform a POST, can some1 explain please thx

 

[bigsby]

A POST is done automatically, everytime you turn on any computer. When someone says that there computer doesn't POST, that means it wont start up for some reason, often because of user changed settings in the BIOS, which is where overclocking and such is usually done. That's when clearing the CMOS is handy, because it resets everything to the defaults.