Clear CMOS button should be a standard.

[BotDamian]

My Mainboard Gigabyte B550I Aorus AX

 

TL;DR;

Add CMOS clear buttons to all Mainboards, I pay the 5euro extra if it comes down to "expenses".

 

I'm very butt hurt about this,

I've overclocked my ram 4400Mhz cl17, 2200if wasn't stable.

 

Removing and changing ram didn't help to make the PC post again or load default settings.

 

In other to unplug the CMOS battery that is hidden behind the heatsink. To access the battery I need to unscrew the Mainboard, remove the rear backplate, remove the M2 cover, then remove the M2 heatsink, then unscrew the whole VRM heatsink and then I was able to access the battery.

 

Why am I so butt hurt? How hard is it to add a toggle switch to turn on/off the CMOS battery. All you need is one more hole and a simple button next to the qflash button. They made a qflash button that I have never used since Ive started building pcs but I've used clear CMOS at least 100 times.

 

I just had my CPU water cooled, why I didn't take it off is because of the liquid metal thermal compound, it's really messy.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Or you could use the clear CMOS jumper pins that don't require you to remove that.... Would advise looking in the manual before complaining about missing features.

 

[porina]

It's more of a feature for overclocking focused mobos, as opposed to just overclocking capable. I'd also like to see power and reset buttons on mobo, makes using them on a bench more convenient. 

[YoungBlade]

Looking at the manual, there's a "Clear CMOS" header just above SYS_FAN2. You can actually see it in your first picture. Just below where it says "CLR CMOS" and "CLEAR CMOS"

[porina]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Or you could use the clear CMOS jumper pins that don't require you to remove that....

Didn't look at all the details, but is it much more accessible than the battery in this case? However, you can run wires to it with a switch on it, to make it easier to do. Probably too niche as a common product but it should exist. No different from power/reset switches you could even recycle from an old case for example.

[Oshino Shinobu]

6 minutes ago, porina said:

Didn't look at all the details, but is it much more accessible than the battery in this case? However, you can run wires to it with a switch on it, to make it easier to do. Probably too niche as a common product but it should exist. No different from power/reset switches you could even recycle from an old case for example.

The fact that you don't have to remove anything to use it makes it significantly easier than removing the battery. Just bridge them with something metal for 10 seconds and you're done. 

 

There's plenty of things they could put on the board that don't really cost much, but from the manufacturer's standpoint, it makes sense to leave them for the high end boards they can charge more for, rather than putting them on the lower end chipsets and such and taking unique features away. I'd agree that it would be nice for them to have it, as well as onboard power buttons, but this is common among all manufacturers to keep features exclusive to more expensive boards.

 

EDIT: They're completely uncovered by the shroud, not even in a hard to access place. 

 

[YoungBlade]

25 minutes ago, porina said:

Didn't look at all the details, but is it much more accessible than the battery in this case? However, you can run wires to it with a switch on it, to make it easier to do. Probably too niche as a common product but it should exist. No different from power/reset switches you could even recycle from an old case for example.

It does exist: https://www.amazon.com/Warmstor-3-Pack-Desktop-Button-Computer/dp/B072FMVZJZ

 

I just searched "clear CMOS button" on Amazon and that was a top result.

[BotDamian]

Calm down guys, I just realized I'm a donkey with the help of reddit.

I was focused on finding the Battery, because if you think a lil more, how much work would it be for gigabyte to just add the damn button?
So i thought, so if there is no button, i need to take out the battery. But they added 2 pins there.

 

Why not a button tho, not that much more work to add a button. Make a hole, solder 2 cables, to the button, done.

[Squeezy]

CMOS jumper works with PSU - ON, but System - OFF. 
Manual is fricking wrong. Gigabyte should be ashamed of it, spent hours because of this piece of crap

[Squeezy]

On 10/16/2021 at 11:20 AM, Oshino Shinobu said:

Or you could use the clear CMOS jumper pins that don't require you to remove that.... Would advise looking in the manual before complaining about missing features.

 

Jumper didn work IDK why (tried 4 metal objects, twisting and pressing against those pins and holding each time 15+ sec)