Edit: sorry about quality, no digi cam.. just phone cam

Many people have asked about this regarding my brothers rig: the external CMOS reset fighter toggle switch, i have decided to get off my butt and make one for my rig... (he gave me a spare toggle switch.)

(My bros rig can be found here if anyone is interested - http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=98641

Anyho.. what you need is:

*A soldering Iron + solder
*Scissors
*Toggle switch
*Power connectors (from the front of the case)
*A small pin.. or sewing needle

Optional:

**Heatshrink - 25mm, 20mm, and 9mm (or lower)
**Braiding - 1/8

Right.

Here is a pic of the toggle switch i will be using:


A front view of the switch:


The power connector - make sure it is a 3 pin connector


Right onto the soldering.. doesn't matter what colour the wire is.. originally my power connector was blue, green and white but i changed them to make it easy for other people who find it hard to follow.. thats why i'm making it seem very simple

As i said make sure the neutral (white in this picute) is soldered on the middle connection:


With the white soldered on, it doesn't matter which way the red and black goes... as with the power connector, you can turn it upside down into the motherboard... i decided to solder the red at the top and black at the bottom:


There you go, a finished bios switch.. but for people who want to braid the switch, all you do is braid as usual with the neccessary size, and to cover up the solder mess/connections, use the largest heatshrink available and squeeze it on... it might not look as if it will fit.. but it will. As you are doing this though, be careful not to pull of the connetors accidently:


Heat that up then get a small heatshrink piece and add that on. You should have something like this:



There you have it.. a finished bios switch...


-For a more professional look, use black braiding... unfortunately i didn't have any and had to resolve using blue-

Excellent guide mate, i have done this very thing on one of my pc's and may well do it on my main rig soon. Personally i would have used a smaller switch so it can be mounted in a pci slot but thats just my personal chioce.

Awesome dude great idea

Stick around on the forums dude

very nice write up and very nice idea... have already done it tho but hughlle stole it off me and never gave it back was very usefull!

I was thinking of doing the same thing but I'd prefer to use a push switch. An illuminated one would be pretty cool so that it could have a red warning light when in the CMOS Reset position. Either that or a non-locking push switch so that you have to hold it in for CMOS Reset.

only just saw this. b****** liar. it was the switch on your old arctic silencer so i ripped it out while you were in lessons and pu it in the fron of the eclpise case where it still resides.....dont even try stealing my ideas mupet