How To Clear Bios In Dell 2305

Remove the case cover, power unplugged & find the cmos jumper (3 below) move the jumper across to the middle pin & the open pin. Wait a minute & move it back to the original postion. replace the cover plug in the pc; power up with the default bios settings.. Go to page 85 of this manual  here for a motherboard layout of your PC.

1 TV tuner card slot (TV TUNER) 2 Mini-Card slot (WLAN\COMBO)

3 CMOS jumper (CLR_CMOS) 4 password jumper (CLR_PSWD)

5 SATA drive connector (SATA 1) 6 SATA drive connector (SATA 0)

7 display cable connector (when

both MXM card and audio video

card are present) (AVIN_MXM)

8 display cable connector (when

only MXM card is present)

(LVDS_MXM)

9 display cable connector (when

only audio video card is present)

(AVIN_UMA)

10 display cable connector (when

both MXM card and audio video

card are absent) (LVDS_UMA)

11 MXM-assembly connector 12 processor socket

13 MXM-fan connector (MXM FAN) 14 processor heat-sink fan connector

(CPU FAN)

15 memory-module connector 16 memory-module connector

17 hard-drive power cable

connector (HDD PWR)

18 optical-drive power cable

connector (ODD PWR)

19 camera cable connector 20 Bluetooth cable connector (BT)

21 converter-card cable connector 22 infrared blaster cable connector

23 infrared cable connector 24 touch-screen cable connector

(Touch)

25 battery socket (BT1) 26 speaker cable connector

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