IP Address

The other day Noah called asking about the IP address of his router.

Here's how we found that:

Go to the command prompt (cmd)

Type the command ipconfig
You should see it listed next to IPv4 address. (Yours might say IPV6)

There is also another way to do it:

From the start menu
Go to the control panel
Go to the network and internet section
Go to view network status and tasks
You should see a connection that says either "local area connection" or "wireless connection"
Near that should be a link for "view status"
Clicking that should pop up another window
In that window, you can click "details"


Do you see your IP address in that window?

Now for the points:
10 points for anybody who posts their IP address - just write it as a comment to this blog
10 points for the first person to post a picture of BOTH ways to find your IP address.
Bonus points if you get them both on the same picture (see mine below)

Noah - you were looking for the router IP address... bonus points for you if you post what THAT was. Dont need a picture, but do you remember it? Do you remember how to find it?

Good answers

Tyler,

Those are correct answers and a good description of what was wrong and how you fixed the computer.

Great job.

Check out the "test scoring" page to see how many points you have so far.

- Ruben

-ty

this is the biostar users manual

complementary metal oxide semiconductor - ty

yes,it wouldnt really do anything the screen wouldnt even turn on so i looked at it and neither of the two lights where on so i figured it was something with the CPU and i didnt want to mess anything up so i called ruben for help. the CMOS is found at the lower right corner right below the 3 orange boxes it is labeled JCMOS1 i had to swich it to the left two prongs for about 1or 2 min then swich it back to the right

Critical Issue Fixed - Good Job Tyler

Yesterday Tyler called with a computer that was not working.

The 2 LED's on the side of his motherboard were not lighting and he correctly identified that it was a CPU Error.

So... we looked up some stuff on the internet by searching for "biostar, motherboard, and CPU error". Eventually we found out that we needed to reset the CMOS chip.

Resetting the CMOS chip procedure is found on page 15 of your manual. Tyler was able to perform the CMOS reset and his computer is back up and running.

This is a CRITICAL FIX for a computer and one that would cost $300 or $400 to do if you took it into a repair shop. You should avoid doing this unless it is absolutely necessary because it can be very hard on your motherboard... but... if you know somebody whose computer is really not working it just might save it.

Congrats to Ty for being able to do it correctly.

Now for the questions - post a reply to this post to answer the questions:

Tyler - Can you describe what your computer was doing before we reset the CMOS?
Tyler - Can you describe where to find the CMOS Header on your motherboard?
Tyler - Can you tell us what the CMOS header is called on the motherboard?
Tyler - Can you describe what you did with that jumper in order to fix the CMOS?
Bonus points depending on how well you answer.

Anybody (worth 10 points) - What does CMOS stand for?
Anybody (worth 10 points) - Find the biostar motherboard manual somewhere online and post the link to this blog - Hint: you can do a google search as long as you have the motherboard name correct.

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OK - next test...

I changed my "cmd" screen to Fairmont State colors.

Who can upload a green and white CMD screen first ?

Ruben