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Can someone help me correct my stupid mistake? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So I got a VR headset today and while trying to make it work on my pc I did some messing around in the UEFI settings. In my unending wit I accidentally seem to have disabled my GPU because I misread what the setting would do. I am an absolute noob in all matters computer and so am at a loss about what I have to do to make my pc work correctly again. Any help will be welcome.

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[–] 32 points 8 months ago (8 children)

If you don't have an onboard display to plug into, open your PC, pull the CMOS battery for 30s, and plug it back in. This will reset all your settings to factory defaults.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Many fancy motherboards have a button to reset these settings as well. Often the bios settings are referred to as CMOS settings as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah, but it's almost pointless to give an "if, then, elsif, elsif" scenario if just removing the battery does the same thing, and all motherboards have a battery for the CMOS.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    the batteries are being soldered onto the motherboard now-a-days

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Never seen that, and I build with hundreds of variants from all the big manufacturers. Haven't seen that once in a PC, Laptop, or SFF.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    i last saw it the last time i was a system admin tasked w spec-ing out hardware for our offices in austin, ft. lauderdale, denver, and inland empire and i remember being surprised at how much worse they were than the thinkpads i had grown accustomed to supporting as front line tech in mountain view 10 years before that.

    and now w that in mind: it would have been circa 2015 so the landscape should have changed by now; maybe they reversed course like they did the rubycon capacitors that caused the capacitor plague 15ish years ago.

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    • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Try plugging your monitor in a motherboard port instead of the GPU ports.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Note this only works if your CPU has on-board graphics like most Intel chips (non KF variant) or AMD's G series processors.

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    • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    try the pulling CMOS battery thing (you also need to disconnect power btw), if it doesn't work there should be a CMOS RESET jumper on your motherboard, try shorting that.

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    • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you disabled the GPU in the UEFI you'll have to re-enable it in the UEFI.

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    • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Don’t you have to start up the pc in bios mode like holding f2 f8 or f10 and change it from there? I’d reinstall the bios from the manufacturers website to default

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