Another tip: if your pc/laptop doesn't boot after you cleaned it, You should remove the RAM modules and clean the RAM slots, sometimes dust gets stuck in the RAM slots when you clean your system and that prevents the system to boot.

Wouldn't post? Did you try a different mail service? /s

Well if the IFixit kit would be named the IBrokeit kit for Jay then it would be the IDroppedit kit for Linus

Did you checked the PPBUS_G3Hot?

Some notebooks allow you to reset the BIOS by using the power button. May it "hold for 10 seconds" or "press 5 times quickly". Oh and some notebooks, especially the thinner ones don't have a dedicated CMOS battery anymore ... since there's another battery that's "always connected" :)

4:48 "you need to be very careful" *pulls it off and tosses it*

Wait, that looks like the one that linus dropped. Rip that laptop

Thats a neuron in the background 🙂

I'd hope you have neurons inside you, Jay.

"This is the part where you have to be very gentle" *Loud Snapping Sound.mp3*

Worth noting, Clevo systems like the one in the video have a keyboard shortcut to reset the CMOS. If you have a Clevo system (OriginPC, Eurocom, Sager etc): - Power the machine off - Hold Fn + D, Hold power button until the system turns on, Release power button, release Fn+D once you get a popup message saying NVRAM reset. - Newer systems also have an Fn + G shortcut to reset any GPU overclocks as well. That being said, removing the CMOS battery is the sure-fire way to reset CMOS for any laptop. It's just that the one in the video happens to have a convenient shortcut. Also worth noting, many laptops have the CMOS battery placed UNDER the keyboard (on the "top" of the motherboard).

Says "I was sick and had one of those in my system" Points at a neuron...

Jay: VIDEO IDEA! We're going to brick a laptop and show them how to fix it.

I would love if newer laptops had convenience panels for the ram, hard drive, WiFi card and battery like older ones have.

In my opinion, if u dunno how to open ur own laptop, or if u cannot name the basic components in ur laptop, you shouldn’t overclock

Being sick doesn't mean you stop working. Just means you have to work when you don't want to work the most. Your always my go to when I need to fix my noob overclocks. Words of wisdom. This sir deserves all the likes. I thank you.

Thank you for this information I have had a laptop that would not boot and this brought it back to life. I dident think of the secound bat at all...

I got a very old laptop from Asus which has no cmos battery on motherboard. Some time ago my dad went to repair it cause it wouldn't boot from some reason. The guy who took this laptop said it needs to replace the battery. Me as owner and many years using it lauhg so hard of the "specialist and experienced service person". Still it recall me a big smile :)

I love these troubleshooting videos ad someone with an interest in the I.T. field, will always watch any you release.

Computer lab back in high school had a bunch of Dell desktops that were known to give black screens every now and then. Fix was to pull a stick of RAM out to cause the hardware change, like you said, then put it back in once we could get back into the OS. We called it the "Dell slap", worked every time

as experienced as some of us are we always miss something along the way. this video saved my laptop thought it was broken forreal but all i needed was to clear my cmos thank you jay

Dont delay send your windows laptop to paul s care of rossmangroup. lol i can hear paul screaming please dont in the back ground

Very cool. I had to replace the battery on my Z87 (Haswell, 4th Gen Intel) motherboard recently. They go bad after a few years, and it wouldn’t boot after a power outage. Thought it was fried but nope - CMOS!

it would be great if you make a video on how to flash bios on the corrupted laptop bios

Great video Jay! This will greatly help people who are about to go buy a new laptop when their old one still works just needs a reset.

Love a good overclocked 8750H

Damn, I completely forgot about the CMOS when I was fixing a friend's laptop a few weeks ago Thanks for the reminder!

You can see Jay is old school 5:30 :"The HDD isn't thinking because the light is not on". Great videos. Thanks.

If you corrupt your BIOS and it absolutely will not post... Get the latest (or preferred) BIOS onto a thumb drive from the manufacturer website, move the file and then plug the drive in while the bricked computer is off and then boot it. Wait several minutes for it to flash the BIOS into the motherboard and you should see it post within 10 minutes.

This would work on most laptops, but if it won't work on yours, consult the manual or google how to reset bios for your particular model, it's likely you need to short some copper trace to reset the bios

Tip: If you have an old laptop then it is possible that the CMOS battery is empty (it's just a regular non rechargable battery). That means that if you have settings in your BIOS for things like boot order or memory speed (XMP profile) every time the laptop's battery is drained, it will lose those settings. In most cases the laptop will still work, but some laptops might refuse to boot at all. Also if the CMOS loses it's settings the laptop (and normal motherboards too) will do a deep hardware scan to see what memory settings to use and what type of drive is installed. This will take a few seconds more then a normal BIOS post check. So replacing an empty CMOS battery can slightly speed up your booting after an empty laptop battery situation.

Can Phil show us your editing workflow or like a tutorial? And configs with intel/ryzen cpus vs nvidia/radeon gpus with Adobe Premiere Pro CC? We will learn a ton from it.

I like Phil. I encourage more footage of Phil dropping jokes on Jay.

Everyone loves Phil, you know that Jay

Thanks for the vid! I knew this technique years ago but forgot all about it. I just bricked my pc doing the dame thing so now I can fix it.

Feel better soon Jay.

1:46 I recommend peeling them off, placing them to one side and then sticking them back on. 4:52 There are 5 guitar picks and pry tool for doing exactly this 2 feet away, dude. Yanking on it like that could break a tab.

Some laptops these days are glued together and attempting to disassemble them will destroy them

Keep calm and clear CMOS!

Summer time sickness blows man. Hope you are feeling better .

I have the HP Omen 17T AN012DX which is the RX 580 version, it does not come with an SSD but has support for a SATA and m.2 PCIE SSD. It's easily opened as well so if anyone has any of the HP Omen laptops it's generally easy to pop the bottom off.

Next video, "This heart wouldn't beat, this is how I fixed it!" Hope you feel better Jay.

Glad a video from this channel was less than 9 minutes.

JayzTwoCents is the whole reason I'm grinding for computer parts and stuff right now.

we love you phil!

Crazy, I have a ROG laptop that does this exact thing. 2 years ago I tried fixing it and couldn't get anything to happen. Now this video comes up lol think I'll be trying to fix my 9 pound paper weight again. The thing has just been sitting for the past 2 years. Even if it doesn't work thanks J for making a video on it and giving me some kind of hope. Lol

Most laptops that I service have a reset CMOS jumper near the RAMs slot. It's really small, sometimes hidden with black tape and usually you can ready RST or RTC-CLEAR or similar. You need to use metallic (conductive) tweezers to short 2 small copper pads. Most of the times, the cmos battery is well hidden and requires a full system disassemble

Didn't show the process of disconnecting the CMOS battery. Might be useful for some peeps who have never done it before. However, love you Jay!

CONGRATS ON 2 MIL!!!

Those ‘void warranty if removed’ stickers have been deemed false by the FTC in the USA. If any manufacturer rejects a repair over this, just file a complaint with the FTC. Worked for me when MSI refused to service a laptop of mine. Even though I didn’t touch the sticker, but they said it was removed. Thank you, FTC!

At IBM, Laptop TechSupport days: The first line in case of no post black screen scenario. Pull power and battery out. Holder the power on button for at least 5 seconds down. Put in the power cable. Press the power button again. We would not instruct the customer to consult the available PDF how to take the bottom off and remove the CMOS battery. We also ask to connect an external monitor, in case the backlight failed (or take it into a dark room and shine with a flashlight in it, if the backlight failed you can still see something with the help of the flashlight in a darker room). If it is really dead, send it to/mail it into the Customer Service Centre. And they do their job, hand on. Which can't be done or expected by your everyday customer.

If the MB on the desktop has a button then you can push to clear, if it dont then you would have to remove the battery on the MB itself to clear the CMOS, i believe the laptop and the desktop MB uses the same battery CR3032, its just enclose in a laptop as they dont have space on the MB for the mounting harness to have it directly on the board.

Had a broken laptop for months now. This exact problem! Thank you so much for making this!

Thank you Jay! I did this for a clients laptop and it worked like a charm! You made the perfect video at the perfect time.

Congratz for 2 million Jay :)

On almost all laptops I have serviced in the past that won't post boot I have done almost the same thing...I tend to use a Magnifying Glass and go over the area where the battery is located in said laptop and see if there isn't a jumper connection somewhere. Most of the time the jumper is there but no pins to cross to clear the CMOS. If the jumper section is there, I used a flathead screwdriver and just cross the sections to clear the CMOS. However, there have been instances where there is no jumper section at all and I have to do the old tried and true method of removing the CMOS battery and resetting like your showing Jay. And not on top of that there have been a few instances where they have the damn CMOS battery soldered to the board and I have needed to drag out the ole soldering iron to unsolder the battery from the board to get the thing to post boot after clearing the CMOS that way. So yea, there are like you said a ton of ways manufacturers put these things together and there are too many to name that have issues like this and almost everyone of them is different in some way to fix them. There is no way to show them all without creating 1000's of videos for each one...lol Good Luck with that. ;)

On some laptops there are 2 PCB pads which if you connect bridge for a few seconds you will reset the cmos.

On some laptops you can unlock those features in BIOS. For MSI you hold right hand side Ctrl+shift and left hand side alt+F2 while in the BIOS, and ALL the features show up,!

Congrats on 2 mill!

Something like this happened to me. A friend of mine gave his "broken" laptop to me before leaving the country to live abroad. He said it didn't work at all and that I could use its parts and such. I checked it and yeah, the thing wouldn't turn on, no BIOS screen, no fan spin, nothing. So I set the laptop aside, stored it. A few weeks ago, two years later, I decided to replace the CMOS battery just out of curiosity, and voilà, got myself a newish working laptop. I hate myself for not trying this earlier.

On the contrary, I love Phil and his editing very much so! His background commentary is hilarious!!

My experience of supporting notebooks with built-in batteries: unplug the power cable; hold down the power button for 30s (really only needs about 10s but most people will fast-count rather than counting seconds... then the good old "nothing's happening," to which I'll respond "good, that means you're doing it right..."); hold down Win+B and turn on; oh look, the BIOS is restoring itself. I can't speak for Origin PC, but I'd expect they have a similar function.

That is actually the exact way I fixed my instrument cluster in my car. Was fiddling with it using a fault reader thingamajig to find out what is it's niggle , got called over to help with something and in the mean time I left it plugged in and running, my son was curious what I was playing with and decided to have a go at this clunky handheld thing that is plugged in to the car. He played with it for a bit and figured out it is not a handheld game of any kind, he unplugged it after messing with it to bring it to me and ask what it was. After an audible face-palm and a short lecture on asking before fiddling with things that are not his I returned to the car seemingly off with the ignition in the powered state as i left it. It started just fine but everything on the dash was dead, nothing worked. Dreading the worst I power cycled it a couple of times, nothing. Left it alone for an hour or so and tried again, still nothing. Left it for the day. Next day I had an epiphany in the shower (as you do). Disconnect the battery, drain the caps, power cycle and try again. And what do ya know? It fucking worked! It felt really good to cancel a mechanic callout that would probably charge me an arm and a dick for a new cluster + fitting.

Some brands don´t use CMOS battery like HP or Toshiba, so you just need to unplug the main battery for a few seconds and that´s all

Try fixing a laptop after hitting it with a brick

Nice to see old school tricks still work on newer hardware.

Jay, congratulations for hitting 2M subscribed. Big landmark for you and the team :-)

Some of the older Acer Prediitor series the CMOS battery was soldiered. When I worked in their refurb factory we kept a paper clip handy to short it.

My motherboard only has two pins that are awkwardly placed that need shorting to get it to reset if I go too far. I've ordered one of those external USB hubs with the power, HDD etc connectors , USB backplate and crucially external buttons to press which I am going to use for such a situation. You could even get an even cheaper, micro push button with two pin cable connector and wire it to the BIOS battery header somehow that cuts out the current from the battery and just route and poke it from some hole/vent (or if you don't care drilll a space into the shell) in order to hard reset the BIOS.

I did this to fix my daughters Dell laptop. It worked like a charm.

Thanks Jay! I’m glad I’m getting actual tech tips in my feed. this will come in handy someday.

It wouldn't post? Did you try checking if you're banned from that subreddit?

Funny enough. US Federal Law voids those "Warranty void if opened" stickers and has been since 1975 in the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act

if that doesn't work, in rare cases... Don't re-plug the bateries use only the cablecord plug-in; turn the computer on, and then you have it. is just only on wierd cases -mine specialy-

I melted my wife's laptop in the oven....I forgot it was on top of it and I was cooking some good ass chorizos, then next day she was on a rampage with me xD

Yes, XTU's driver communicates directly with the CPU and BIOS. It's not like MSI Afterburner; it's a bare metal tweaking/overclocking tool, and while it *can* be limited by the options exposed/not exposed by the motherboard's BIOS, it will usually expose at least as much as the BIOS does and usually a LOT more, especially when it comes to things like CPU multipliers for the cores and cache as well as Turbo Boost voltages, time limits and other voltages. I had a similar situation happen with my own rig not too long ago where I messed with the manufacturer's overclocking utility and got a black screen/failure to post and had to do the same. I pulled the power, pulled the battery and pulled the CMOS battery, however often times the manufacturer will actually have a key combination you can press during post to reset the BIOS to safe defaults (mine does, however my keyboard doesn't work and the key combination required only works with the built in/proprietary laptop keyboard even though the BIOS does see my USB keyboard just because of a custom function key on the built in keyboard that other keyboards don't have). As for trying to remove restrictions/limits from the manufacturer on a laptop, XTU is really the wrong tool for that purpose. You should check out a nifty little utility called ThrottleStop. I'm an avid high-end laptop user and have been using ThrottleStop for a couple of years now and it's excellent. It lets you lock in multipliers, disable all sorts of throttling and C states/P states, manipulate voltages, remove limits (like power limits and thermal limits, so BE CAREFUL) and it also allows you to undervolt your CPU which is usually the key to locking in a higher multiplier and getting a good, stable and safe OC on a high end laptop. It also allows configuring multiple profiles and can change the profile depending on whether the laptop is on AC or battery which can be quite handy for higher end rigs that need their power adapter to pull full clock speeds. It also monitors temps for CPU and GPU and lists the reasons for throttling/limits on the motherboard/CPU and unlike XTU, it does not mess with the BIOS; everything it does is within Windows and you can have it start on boot or just run it manually when you want to OC and you can quickly switch profiles depending on what you're doing (like surfing the web vs gaming).

Congratz to 2 mn subs! Ps you're inspiring has followed you for 2-3 years and you have helped me so much! Best regards Bacon from sweden

Happy 2mill Jay!

Those CMOS batteries look like something that would be in a PowerBook G3. I would know because I've taken one apart before, very cool old laptops.

Tis true, I always press the power button a couple times to discharge the caps before working inside the case. Picked up that tip when working inside CRTs.

Anybody else laugh at 2:07 when he said “...cover your unit”

That is super serviceable laptop!

Love those fixing/ troubleshooting kinda videos, obviously they're very helpful and generally I just like to know more methods and tips about troubleshooting and such 😁

“No one likes you Phil”... but I love Phil!

Some brands come with a soft CMOS reset combination. HP has Winkey + V for 2-3s when you start the computer. Should do the same as removing battery

Congratulations!! 2M now :D

I'm not sure about other brand but for most HP laptop, you just have to hold your power button for 10 second when powered off. It'll reset it. Also, iirc the XTL should reset itself after a hard reboot. Shouldn't need to remove the battery I think?

Jay you hit 2 million!

We do love you Phil

***jay*** MSI that you mention, I have one, they are easy to get the back cover off, like with your dem lap top remove the screws and the one under a sticker, then whip out a redudant credit card

Hey Jay, can you please make a video on VR headsets and system requirements? What to look for, what to avoid, Oculus vs Vive vs WMR? Can I really get away with a weaker GPU? Etc. etc. I know you have a video setting up the racing sim, but a video on VR headsets and VR gaming on a budget would be very informative, especially since there are many new VR ideas hitting the market, and no one on a budget wants to spend $1k on a Vive Pro or the new Steam headset.

IMPORTANT! You loose your date settings at CMOS reset... any log what is running could be affected by that!

I mean, that sticker over the screws n stuff for the warranty has been done for decades, so its clearly legal, and if you yourself open up your own Laptop within that warranty period, then the brand/company won't take liability for any damage you might have caused, since they don't know if you'd even done anything to it. I mean, look Jay, I bought my first gaming rig from a PC builder company in Germany, which offers a 3 year warranty on their machines. But they put the warranty sticker onto the RAM and Motherboard connector.

Congratulations on 2mil Subs!

Feel better Jay!

Feel better Jayztwocents

No, they can't legally deny you warranty service if you mess with a tamper sticker, but they CAN legally make you wait several weeks for service if you do.

I'm more amazed how I didn't know that you can use xtu to oc a laptop.. Maybe because I don't use laptops

You are genius brother

congratulations on 2000000 subscribers!