20 Most Recent MSI MS-9877-D Intel NM10/ ICH9R Chipset Atom Dual-Core D525 Processor Support mini-ITX Motherboard Mfr P/N MS-9877-D System Boards - Page 7 Questions & Answers

If it is Windows 8 and mean resetting the operating system you can use the built in refresh feature of Windows 8. Go to control panel > open Recovery. At the bottom there is a link which reads 'If you are experiencing problems with your PC, you can refresh it in PC settings'. Click on it to open PC Settings recovery options. You can use the topmost option 'Refresh your PC without affecting your files' to keep folders like My Documents intact. Or 'Remove everything and reinstall Windows', this will delete everything and do a full reinstall. It should use the recovery drive available on your laptop to restore to factory defaults.

cr 2032 is the standard battery.

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try f8 to start in low resolution mode windows should use standard vga driver

Go to the MSI site and go to the support section. They provide drivers for all the equipment, although older equipment may not have drivers to suit the latest operating systems.

download windows 7 activator and activate it and you must activate again according to their given time

http://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/U180_English.zip this is the manual go to page no. 31 Chapter 2-9

They connect to the JFP1 connectors on the lower right edge of the board. The power LED connects to the 2 and 4 pins, The HDD LED to the 1 and 4 pins, the reset to the 5 and 7 pins and the power switch to the 6 and 8 pins. The pins are numbered up down right to left like this. 97531 08642

https://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/RS482M4FD_ILD_IL_L.html#down-manual https://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/RS482M4CSIP.html#down-manual you'll find your answer in one of these manuals

This motherboard has the integrated Intel GMA 950 GPU. This graphics processor is very weak, it uses system memory instead of the normal separate graphics memory, and it uses the system CPU for graphics functions that are normally done by the Graphics Processing Unit chip. This means that if the CPU has to do other tasks, the Video will suffer. If there is a lack of free RAM, the video will not function because paging to the hard disk (Virtual Memory) is way too slow. The first thing to check is CPU usage, and free RAM under normal conditions before you try HD video. Are there enough free resources ?

IF this is happening under battery power then the battery is bad and needs to be replaced.