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Most modern motherboards have done completely or almost completely away with jumpers. In the good ol' days, there used to be lots of pins sticking out of many motherboards and to change settings you would move jumpers (small plastic linkages that connected two pins like a switch) to change settings on your board.
Modern boards usually do all their settings in the BIOS, but if you can't get the board to turn on you'll never get to those settings.
Try clearing the board's CMOS. There's 3 main ways to do this depending on your board. The sure-fire way is to pull the battery. Unplug your PC from the wall and press the power button (after unplugging) to make sure all power supply energy is drained. Then remove the small round coin cell backup battery from the motherboard and wait a few minutes. This resets the board's CMOS (where all your settings are saved).
Alternatively, some boards have a "CLEAR CMOS" button either on the back panel or somewhere on the board itself. Pressing or holding it should clear the CMOS. On other boards, there is a 2 or 3 pin jumper block where jumping two of the pins will clear CMOS when you try to power on the PC (it must be plugged in for both of these methods to work). If using a jumper, remember to unset the jumper (move it back to its original setting) after you get it working.
Modern boards usually do all their settings in the BIOS, but if you can't get the board to turn on you'll never get to those settings.
Try clearing the board's CMOS. There's 3 main ways to do this depending on your board. The sure-fire way is to pull the battery. Unplug your PC from the wall and press the power button (after unplugging) to make sure all power supply energy is drained. Then remove the small round coin cell backup battery from the motherboard and wait a few minutes. This resets the board's CMOS (where all your settings are saved).
Alternatively, some boards have a "CLEAR CMOS" button either on the back panel or somewhere on the board itself. Pressing or holding it should clear the CMOS. On other boards, there is a 2 or 3 pin jumper block where jumping two of the pins will clear CMOS when you try to power on the PC (it must be plugged in for both of these methods to work). If using a jumper, remember to unset the jumper (move it back to its original setting) after you get it working.