I have no power, no lights, no fans no hd spin and would like to try and change the  cmos battery and don't want to dig or take apart more than I have to, can anyone tell me where it is?
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The cmos battery shouldn't stop the computer from booting, it'll just boot with default settings each time. If you have a totally dead box check the power supply first. You should always at least get a fan whirring or something.
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Well if the default bios setting allowed you to do it then just remove your cmos battery off of your motherboard for atleast a few hours (maybe even overnight if you can) and it will reset the bios to it's original state. That might be the only thing you can do since you stated you have no ps2 port.
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take the battery out for a few minutes then replace.\n\n\nthe mother board battery is what i was talking about!!!!!!! had to perform that operation myself and it works wonderfully. and not all laptop main board batteries are on the motherboard, mine was located in a small compartment underneith the laptop.\n\nUPDATE: you could just also bash the thing repeatedly on the concrete untill it is just a bunch of tiny bits, that will get rid of the password too.
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ok here is how...\nas soon as u start ur PC press DEL key to enter the CMOS,\nthen in the first option enter..\nthere u can see the time option n all sort..\ndont change ne settings as they all are very important,specially if u dont know what u r doin..\nthere u can see Drive A: which may be none in ur case....\nhighlight that with the direction key..\nthen click enter n select..floppy 1.44MB FDD\nonce done pressF10 or press Esc then select Save And Exit..\nthen Yes... this is the basic way....\nIf not u gotta hav some connector or faulty FDD...
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I'm guessing by the sounds of it you have a dead CMOS battery. It's a little battery(looks like a watch battery) that keeps all that info like the system clock stored when you have the computer turned off. If that was to die you would be getting messages like this. I reccomend you replace it(if you know what you are doing) or bring it to a computer store and have them do it and it should fix the problem.
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remove the power . take cover off pc on the motherboard there is a silver battery remove that and on the right at the bottom there is jumper pin red or pink or green remove that  wait 1 mn then put that jumper pin back and the silver battery  cover up pc power back in start up pc password should be gone
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CMOS batteries are quite inexpensive, much cheaper than a new drive.  However, they rarely fail.  When I read the title of your question, I thought jumpers, but it it was working, that's not it.  Most likely the onboard drive controller has failed.
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well go to control panel-power settings and adjust it from there ... make sure you dont have the settings too sensitive ... enjoy ..
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First of all: Tattie Herbert.\n\nIf you mess up nothing will break. Do your homework and get out of here!\n\n1) There is an 3pin switch on the motherboard. It says "clr cmos".\nPut it from 2-3 to 1-2 switch on the computer, switch it off, put it back to 2-3.\nThe cmos is now reset.\n\n2) I turned off Soundcard, Modem and Videocard (Use better ones) and set the boot option to c: only set memory to turbo and disabled floppy and enabled s.m.a.r.t. capability and cable detect on ATA100.
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I believe most CMOS batteries are 2032 batteries.  You should be able to find them anywhere and they aren't really machine specific.  I'm not sure about laptops though.
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Clear your CMOS discharge jumper by resetting the jumper on the Mobo. The jumper consist of 3 pins and is usually located near the battery, or the P1 and P2 headers. with the computer off, remove the little plastic square from pins 1 and 2, and replace onto pin 2 and 3 for a few secs. then back to pins 1 and 2. start the computer. If that doesn't work remove the battery for a day for the CMOS to lose it's memory. Next day install the battery, turn computer on. This should reset your BIOS to the defaults
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WIth a laptop, you would have to reset the CMOS which would involve taking the whole laptop apart and removing the battery. Best to take it to a shop for this.
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if its a desktop you can try: open the tower and there is a lil battery and the power cord remove it for like a minute, one minute! not 15 sec. and replace the battery and power cord and turn it on you should be able to get in
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There's a small round battery located on the motherboard. This battery keeps the time clock as well as your settings going. The battery usually is a CR2032 battery you can get at any department store. That battery is going dead. This is a very easy job on most computers. If you have any other questions you can email me.\n\nstlouisfan
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Take out the battery, disconnect the AC power supply and hold in the power button for 30 seconds, put the battery back in and reconnect the AC power then see if it will power on. If no, check on the side of the computer where the optical drive is, see if it has a little hole on the optical drive (emergency eject) and stick an unfolded paper clip in it to manually eject the disk. Then call tech support and see if the laptop can be serviced.
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yes the problem is caused by the battery on the motherboard (called the CMOS battery) has gave up. and will need to be replaced its easy to change turn off pc, open case locate battery which is about 1" inch across. usually near bottom right of motherboard take out battery put new 1 in, do reverse, reset time and date in bios, then in windows and thats it for another few years.
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something is fried in your laptop, most likely the internal power module. the clear signs are, the lcd and the hard disk get no power.\ntherefore you have no other choice than getting your laptop to repair.