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    Please help... Gt683r-242us cmos battery location

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ed.howell, Mar 13, 2012.

  1. ed.howell

    ed.howell Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,
    I changed a setting in one of the customer bioses available on the forum here and now the laptop will not post. Can someone please tell me where the cmos battery is so I can clear it? I tried many Google searches and cannot find an answer.

    Also, I upgraded my processor from the stock 2630, to a 2860. Everything was working fine, but I decided I wanted a fresh install of Windows. Now Intel turbo boost does not work and u have a missing driver in device manager. When I searched what the device was, I can't remember exactly what it said off the top of my head, the results were that I was missing a driver or something to activate the turbo boost function.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!!

    Thanks,
    Ed
     
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    Its the 2 pin connector next to where the fan plugs in, the lead runs round to the other side of the board, just unplug the lead for a minute.
     
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    Well, I still learn something new everyday.

    Thanks for that Meaker. :D

    I didn't have one on hand to physically check and the manuals didn't really seem to have anything clearly stating the location.
    That and staying in the Sager forums for too long. :rolleyes:
     
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    Thank you guys VERY much!!!! I watched the video linked above and saw where the battery was, then took the bottom cover off of my notebook and noticed the 2 pin plug. So I unplugged it and prayed, obviously I didn't see the latest posts here, and everything works.

    I also loaded optimized defaults in Xonar's bios, somehow I had a setting screwed up that was not allowing Turbo mode even though I had it enabled.

    You guys are awesome, thanks again!!!

    Ed
     
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    Heh, no problem.

    Not that I ever needed to do it myself when playing with the base clock at all :D Not me ^-^
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 14, 2012
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