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| Thread ID: 77690 | 2007-03-18 21:46:00 | My BIOS keeps dying | Sam's Dad (11848) | Press F1 |
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| 534131 | 2007-03-18 21:46:00 | I turned my PC on last night and it gave me 3 beeps instead of the reassuring 1. It then displayed a message saying it was deleting the main BIOS. I have a dual BIOS setup on my PC so I restarted and copied the backup BIOS to the Main BIOS and eveything seems to be fine. This is the second time in a month that this has happened and I'm assuming that this is not a good sign. is there anything I can do to prevent this or should I chuck out the old dunga and buy a new PC? Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA -7ZXR and is about 5 years old thanks in advance |
Sam's Dad (11848) | ||
| 534132 | 2007-03-18 21:55:00 | Might be the battery dying. Replace the CMOS battery. You'll have to reconfigure the BIOS after, or copy it from the 2nd BIOS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534133 | 2007-03-22 09:26:00 | Thanks for the advice. I changed the battery. The fault was intermittent so I'll just have to wait to see if it reoccurs. A bit of excitement when I forgot to reset the BIOS setting when I rebooted but thankfully I had taken a digital photo of the CMOS and BIOS settings to it was quickly fixed. The new battery seems to have given my nearly new graphics card a new lease of life as well. On Tuesday, instead of showing the login screen the monitor would go into standby mode but now all is well. | Sam's Dad (11848) | ||
| 534134 | 2007-03-22 09:40:00 | No worries, good to hear you fixed it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534135 | 2007-03-22 10:40:00 | Yes, it sounded like CMOS battery running low. I used to have a 6 year old motherboard which gave pretty much the same problem. Techie guy said CMOS battery was nearly out, and we went on the upgrade path then. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
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