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Questions tagged [jumper]

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Why does a SATA hard drive have jumpers?

Back in the days of PATA hard drives, a person used jumpers on the drive to indicate whether the drive was the master or the slave of the channel, or to let the cable select which drive was which. SATA drives are one-per-channel, one-per-cable,…
eleven81
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What do you call the place on a hard drive (or motherboard, or anywhere else) to place jumpers?

Most hard drives have a set of pins next to the pata or sata port to place jumpers to do things such as designating it a slave or master. What is the name of those set of other pins? Hard drives are a common place to see them, but they also appear…
chiliNUT
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What's the jumper "enable 1.5GB PHY" on a Western Digital hard disk?

I've got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings: One of them is: Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB PHY What does PHY stand for?
splattne
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Do I need the CLRTC jumper?

I've recently bought a new motherboard the Asus P8 Z68-V Pro. I've been having problems with my computer, specifically screen flashing black and then back again and the computer doesn't turn on straight away. I've noticed that my motherboard doesn't…
Chris
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How does changing jumper resets password

For resetting bios password we used to relocate jumper and reset it,How does changing jumper helps in resetting password? What happens to Bios password while we change jumper ,how does the manual hardware (jumper) relocation changes/resets the…
BlueBerry - Vignesh4303
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PC starts automatically when plugged in and gets shut down after some time

My desktop was working fine till yesterday but suddenly it logged off. When I tried to start it again it started but shut down again after some time. This is now happening continuously. The PC starts automatically when I plug in. I tried to swap…
Rohan
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What's the purpose of the jumper on my XFX GeForce GTS 250 video card?

My graphics card is XFX GeForce GTS 250 1 GB. I've noticed that there is a jumper on the top of the board - top means the opposite side of the PCIe connector. The jumper is not connected. I couldn't find anything about the jumper in specs. May be it…
Donotalo
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Computer only boots when CMOS set to Clear

I just put this computer together yesterday, and I finally had to go to bed last night. The computer only boots when it the clear cmos jumper is set to clear. This is really strange. I have tried to isolate the problem: I am running the motherboard…
Caleb Jares
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Old front audio headers

A friend recently asked me to diagnose his PC (the PSU was faulty), but that's beside the point. I foolishly disconnected the front audio headers before checking the way they were connected, and now I can't wrap my head around how I should connect…
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Motherboard jumper setting: BIOS flash write protection

I have an ECS P4M800PRO-M478 motherboard and I'm just setting up the jumpers right now, of which there are only two sets. One is the CLR_CMOS jumper, which is set to Normal, of course. However, there is another set called BIOS_WP which controls…
Wesley
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Where is the jumper Point to short to bios CMOS on my Toshiba satellite U-505 s2005 laptop

Where can I find the CMOS jumper points on my Toshiba satellite U-505 s2005 laptop?
susan Hustead
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Reset jumper on Toshiba Satellite c55-a-100

My laptop suddenly asked for bios password, not sure why. Anyway searched for hours online to find where the jumper is to no avail. I know my Toshiba Satellite c55-a-100 has one as the chap said that it wouldn't cost much as they only needed to…
Ayrun Mason
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External hard drive set with No Jumper = DS (slave)

My external hard drive has the following label: No Jumper = DS (slave) What does it mean? Does it mean that I will not need to adjust the jumper anymore?
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temporarily short/turn off 845 motherboard

HI, i was wondering if there is a temporary way, to turn off the my GA-81845GV motherboard, so that pressing the power button makes it appear that the MB is faulty. is there a jumper setting to do so? thanks!
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SATA DVD drive doesn't work

I built a computer about 3 years ago and seldom needed the dvd drive to work but when I did it was a pain to get it running. I have a SATA HDD and a SATA dvd drive which seemed to me to be part of the problem. The dvd drive had jumper pins on the…
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