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How to reset bios settings when you can't access it

Abhay Singh

22 Nov, 2016

tl;dr: Reinstalling the motherboard battery resets the bios setting to default.

If you were playing around with the bios settings to see what all things you could do. This little feature of your motherboard could be a life savior for you.
Reinstalling the motherboard battery or the button cell which in installed in the motherboard resets the bios settings to default.

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