[CLUE-Tech] bios forcing shutdown?

[Dave Hahn]

Most newer mainboards have a clear CMOS jumper you can use to reset BIOS 
to the default.  Normally, you short the jumper, power the machine 
(nothing will happen), move the jumper back, then power up again. This 
should give you the manufacturers default settings.  If you can't find 
that, remove the on board CMOS battery for a few minutes - this should 
have the same effect but is less graceful.

HTH,

-d

Jason S. Friedman wrote:

>I'm trying to load a new OS onto my PC.  The PC had a CD
>reader, and CD reader/writer, and a hard drive.  I put the
>CD in the CD reader and turned on the computer and the
>machine ignored the CD and booted the existing OS.  I
>turned the machine off, turned it back on, and brought up
>the bios menu with the intention of adjusting the setting
>that tells bios which device I want to boot from (though I
>was surprised it did not read from the CD reader
>initially).
>
>I must have adjusted something terribly wrong, because now
>when I boot my machine it comes on for a few seconds and
>then turns itself off!  I cannot even get to the bios
>screen in order to change the settings.
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