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    Ms-1651 Id2 Cmos Battery Location

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by stateofstatic, Dec 19, 2008.

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    stateofstatic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all, I have a problem.

    I built this thing up from scratch a couple weeks ago and did something stupid. Specs: P9500, 3GB Kingston HyperX CL3, Intel 5350 wifi/wimax, Optiarc blueray drive, seagate 320gb 7200rpm drive.

    This thing was designed to be used as a mobile recording rig, as well as for video production and light gaming. The audio interface is firewire via a Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer. Ok...everything installed, drivers all in place, try to record. Get 2min of recording, then "beeeeeeep". OS still functions though audio is fooked till you uninstall everything manually and remove all registry entries. Re-install and same story.

    So...I began a process of elimination. went one by one in device manager disabling hardware and retesting. When that didn't fix it, I went into the BIOS and did the same...

    Oh $h!t. Didn't realize that the PEG slot is the for the 9600m...thought that was PCI-E. Disabled it, now screen is blank from power on. So I think my only option at this point is to yank the cmos out and reset the bios and start over. Problem is, I don't see a battery anywhere in the main access, or hard drive access. What gives? Do I really have to unscrew everything to get to the other side of the motherboard, or am I just missing it? There is a grey square with a grey circle in the middle next to the bluetooth module, but it looks fused and the circular part in the middle looks epoxied to the square piece.

    If someone could be either very descriptive of where I need to be looking, or just post a picture of it, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

    Jonathan Amann
    AE: www.zones.com
     
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    stateofstatic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Found it! For future reference...if you look towards that lower right part of in the main access panel, there is a small white plug with a red and black twisted wire going off somewhere under the casing. Unplug that, power it on and off, plug back in and viola! Back to factory defaults in the BIOS. I hope this helps other people stuck...cheers!
     
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