where is the CMOS reset jumper on motherboard for HP Omnibook Xe2?
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Underneath your memory you should see 2 solder points marked with a G, just "jump" these two connections and it should reset it...\n\n***I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS IF THIS RUINS YOUR LAPTOP***\nit worked on mine so just try it...
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try HP's website, they usually have complete instructions you can download.
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Good luck with that one that can get very expensive! don't reinstall nothing whoever said that needs to go back to school. This isn't a software problem it's your bios. Google it see if you see anything just put like "resetting BIOS password for a HP Omnibook 6000" or something like that i had a bunch of hits for it but i didn't look at them all. You may find something out who knows.
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If your looking to get into your CMOS settingsdurring bootup look on the screen for a displayed button to press. If not, look up your motherboard on the web for the buttons. Some common keys to hold durring boot up for CMOS is [del], [f1], [f2], [alt]+[ctrl]+[Enter].
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The part number is on the top of the battery, so yeah... open 'er up and take a look.  You might need to just take the battery out and show it to them, but that'll clear your CMOS settings for the BIOS.  If that isn't a problem for you, go for it.
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This is an older system.  You need to find the actual motherboard manufacturer and model number.  You should then be able to find the information you need about the motherboard.  Are the specific jumpers you are concerned about?  Some of them might be obvious from looking closely.\n\nGood Luck!
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Installing chipset drivers should resolve the issue. Here is the URL to download the chipset drivers from the chipset manufacturer's site :\n\nhttp://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_hyperionpro_v510a.zip\n\nElse, contact HP online technician here :\nhttp://ipgweb.cce.hp.com/ipgna/caller/chat.asp?dd=pavd&productName=HP+Pavilion+a720n+Desktop+PC&productCategory=12455&SCOID=82702&PSOID=46153&aoid=null&lang=en&cc=us
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This really depends what you're trying to accomplish. The jumper pin is for something called CMOS on the motherboard, removing it resets the settings, or you could accomplish the same task on most motherboards by taking out the watch battery and letting the motherboard "drain" for a few days.\n\nThere's a catch though.... if you're just looking to reset windows passwords to get on the PC then you don't have to do this... Instead re-install windows with the recovery disk or windows disk.\n\nResetting the cmos settings would reset the password for the bios - which is the place where you handle basic hardware settings like the drive boot order and things like that.\n\nIf you do need to remove the jumper though, you can locate it by looking in the manual, or seeing if there's any special ethings on the motherbord that say something like "bios jumper" it will physically look like a little plastic piece that usuallty sits on top of three or four metal pins, depending on the manufacturer.
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Its called a flash. TO flash the Bios. Theres software to do it. Check with your motherboards manufacture.
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Can you post the BIOS string that appears on the lower left side of the screen during bootup? Please the PAUSE key to stop the boot sequence.\n\nFrom this BIOS #, if you go to this site:\nhttp://www.wimsbios.com/numbers.shtml\n\nYou can find out octek's  web site.\n\nThis site has older BIOS updates if they are not available at Octek's site:\n\nhttp://wims.rainbow-software.org/index.php\n\nThe limitation could be 40 gig, 80 gig or 120 gig but not sure without having checked out the exact motherboard model.\n\nGeorge
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Tom,\n You should go to the computer maunfacturer's website (hp.com, ibm.com, etc.) and search for your computer's model number. Under the downloads section, you will find a BIOS flash. Write down the version from the website, restart your computer, and get into the BIOS (usually hit F2, some are F8 or Del). That will tell you if you have the latest BIOS or not, matching the written down one with the one the computer says it has. Go back to the website and download/apply the BIOS flash as needed.\nCheers.
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Hardware Boot Process\nStep 1: You push the power button\n\nStep 2: The power supply perfroms a self-test (known as the POST). When all voltages and current levels are acceptable, the supply indicates that the power is stable and sends the Power_Good signal to the motherboard. The time from the switch-on to the Power_Good is normally between .1 to .5 seconds.\n\nStep 3: The microprocessor timer chip recieves Power_Good signal, which causes it to stop generating a reset signal to the microprocessor. \n\nStep 4: The microprocessor begins executing the ROM BIOS code, starting at the memory address FFFF:0000. Because this location is only 16 bytes from the very end of the available ROM space, it contains a JMP (jump) instruction to the actual ROM BIOS starting address.\n\nStep 5: The ROM BIOS perfroms a test of the central hardware to verify basic system functionality. Any errors that occur are indicated by a series of "beep" codes because the video system has not been initialized.\n\nStep 6: The BIOS performs a video ROM scan of memory locations C000:0000-C780:0000 looking for video adapter ROM BIOS programs contained on the video adapter found either on the card plugged into a slot or integrated onto the motherboard. If scan locates a video ROM BIOS, it is tested by a checksum procedure.\n\nStep 7: The motherboard ROM BIOS scan memory locations C800:0000-DF80:0000 in 2KB increments for any other ROMs located on any other adapter cards.\n\nStep 8: The ROM BIOS checks the world value at memory location 0000:0472 to see whether this start is a cold start or warm start. If it is a cold start the full POST executes, if its a warm start, a mini-POST executes.\n\nStep 9: The ROM BIOS searches for a boot record at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1 (the very first sector) on the default boot drive. Sucessful completion of POST is indicated by a beep. \n\nStep 10: If no boot record can be read from drive A: the BIOS then looks for a master book record at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1 (the very first sector) of the first hard disc. If this sector is found, it is loaded into memory address 0000:7C00 and tested for signature.\n\nStep 11: The MBR searches its built-in patition table for entries for a boot indiator byte parking an active partition entry. \nIf an active partition is found in the MBR, the partition boot record from the active partition is loaded and tested.\n\n\nSoftware boot process: (Microsoft Windows XP)\nStep 12: The partition boot sector loads Ntldr (NT Loader). It then switches the processor to protected mode and starts the file system, and reads the contents of Boot.ini. \n\nStep 13:Ntdetect.com gathers hardware configuration data and passes this infromation to Ntldr. \n\nStep 14: The kernel loads. Ntldr passes infromation collected by Ntdetect.com to Ntoskrnl.exe. Ntoskrnl.exe then loads the kernal.\n\nStep 15: Drivers load (You see the Windows XP loading screen)\n\nStep 16: User signs on\n\nStep 17: The boot process is complete and the system is ready for the next set of instructions.
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The bios can be reset with the jumper near the battery on the motherboard. For cracking the windows password download the Linux password recovery crack
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Go to the compaq website!
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Forget all that!..\n\nWhat you need to do is open-up the P.c, and reset the BIOS.\n\nThis is VERY SIMPLE! - all thats involed is moving a jumper, and moving it back a few seconds later (With the computer turned OFF!)\n\nCheck online for the exact location of the Jumper you need to swap. Just goto you Mobo's Manufacturers Website\n\nRegards, Mikeo =)
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You will need the bios flash utility.  You will have to download the files, burn them onto a cd-r or  floppy disk, if they fit and reboot the system from the cd-rom or floppy drive.  Here are the utilities you will need.\n\nThis is no doubt where you found the .bin file\nhttp://global.shuttle.com/Download/Download_File.asp?Item=SK41G\n\nBut I believe you will also need the following\nhttp://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/sk41g_faq.htm\n\nGood luck\n\nAlso, some mainboards DO require you to reset jumpers to flash the BIOS.  Yours isn't one of them.
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If you can get into windows or a comand prompt at least type in the following(it doesn't work on all bios's but it's worth a shot).\n\nDEBUG (a dash will appear)\nthe O is the letter o not a zero, Q quites the debug command. at the end of each line type enter, just icase you didn't know)\n\nhttp://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html\n----------------\nfor AMI/AWARD BIOS \nO 70 17 \nO 71 17 \nQ P\n\nFOR PHOENIX BIOS \nO 70 FF \nO 71 17 \nQ \n\nGENERIC\nInvalidates CMOS RAM.\nShould work on all AT motherboards\n(XT motherboards don't have CMOS) \nO 70 2E \nO 71 FF \nQ \n----------------\n\nThe site has other methods you could try.\n\nEDIT: this is to avoid hte CMOS BATTERY REMOVAL/CMOS CLEAR option.