PC won't boot

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:12 am

Came in and found my monitors had gone to sleep, moved the mouse, hit the keyboard, monitors wouldn't wake up.

Reset the machine

Goes through the initial start-up but then says something along the lines of

Please restart and select boot device.

Reset a few times and still the same

Go into bios settings to check boot list. 1st was floppy, 2nd is HD1.

Select HD1, reboot and still get the same message.

Now it sounds as if the HD is poggered but on initial start up checks it says HD 1 status as 'OK'

Of course I never made a boot disk and gods knows where the windows disk is! It's running Vista Ultimate (or should say it WAS running vista ultimate'

)

Any help on next step guys?

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:55 am

Sussed it. Somehow without any input from me the bios settings where changed to boot up from my slave drive not my master.

How the hell can that happen???

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:35 am

Ghosts???

Look at date and time, is it correct?

BG

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:51 am

I noticed it was in the bios settings so don't think the CMOS was randomly reset if that's what you're thinking.

Strange

tombarry · Post by **tombarry** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:54 pm

The bios will lose its settings if the battery on the M/board is over 2 years

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:58 pm

Really? Because I've got about 9 machines here that say otherwise!

tombarry · Post by **tombarry** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:20 pm

Well maybe its that the computers I've had to repair over the years have all been crap ones
but if your bios keeps losing its settings -well I would tend to think its time to change it

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:30 pm

tombarry wrote:The bios will lose its settings if the battery on the M/board is over 2 years

Sorry, but I agree with BillyGoat.

Only ever had one bios battery fail, this PC for example must be 6 years old, still got the same bios battery. Other thing is, if it does loose the bios settings the clock (time) will default. There was no mention of that.

joinerjohn · Post by **joinerjohn** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:24 pm

Whenever I have trouble booting my computer, I get angry, give it a good kicking, repeat and rinse, until it sees the error of it's ways and decides to boot properly (always works)

(and don't get me started on road rage

)

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:31 pm

Pretty sure that's where the term 'booting' and the common phrase 'have you tried re-booting?' came from John ;)

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