i just repaired an ast bravo 4/66 today. At first i thought the battery was soldered on...but then someone told me to pull it out, so i did. the battery has 3 pins that are pushed in pinholes on the motherboard. i ordered a replacement battery that had those pins and pushed it in and secured it with …

For those who might be looking for the same motherboard - computer. Here is the info I found with everyones help info from the bios version> ACR4BE88-M 11978328 R83-A1 S1 Motherboard model ACER V55LA https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ACER-V55LA-MB-95155-2M-SOCKET-7-SIMM-48-57302-02M-/173665880169 …

OMG Andrea!!!!! THAT WAS IT!!!!! I cannot believe it! There was NO manual to be found .. but indeed it was that dipswitch number 6, I turned to on and its working!!!! See screenshot

Hello, I was able to get one step further. After taking the battery out and shorting the battery leads on the mobo, and rebooting I was shown the attached screenshot screen. But even though my keyboard was working it would not react to alt-ctrl-esc. When i did f1 it was back to the same password …

Hello.. I got this Pentium used from someone, but it gives that error, password violated, system halted message when it boots. The very first time however when i powered it on I was in the bios.. but I restarted for some reason and then from that time on I get the error about the password. See …