Why did my puter...

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  • System
    Member
    • Jun 2006
    • 1091

    #1

    Why did my puter...

    freak out the other mornning @ me?

    I didn't do anything out of the ordinary the other night and when I turned it on the following mornning it would not boot. I realized what the problem was the moment I saw the memory scan running - that being a BIOS problem but I didn't expect what I saw.

    Basically everything in my BIOS was set to the opposite of what it was before or to the lowest values possible. Surely enough a quick defualt load and tweaking of the settings and 10 mins later presto its running just as good or even faster than before again but...

    The question remains, why/how did that happen? I thought maybe it was the battery but its only a year old and its always plugged in so it can't be plus it hasn't done it again yet..

    Ne1 think they knows?
  • =98=
    Member
    • Oct 2006
    • 10299

    #2
    Re: Why did my puter...

    Probably just a random BIOS bug.

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    • Busby, Paul (Bicci)

      #3
      Re: Why did my puter...

      Ya my old A8N-32 used to occasionally decide not to post for no apparent reason. Once the CMOS was cleared it was always fine again. Nothing to worry about unless it makes a habit of doing it.

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      • System
        Member
        • Jun 2006
        • 1091

        #4
        Re: Why did my puter...

        Funny it happened again today.

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        • =98=
          Member
          • Oct 2006
          • 10299

          #5
          Re: Why did my puter...

          Run memtest86 and see whether it passes okay. Is it overclocked?

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          • System
            Member
            • Jun 2006
            • 1091

            #6
            Re: Why did my puter...

            Originally posted by Alex98uk
            Run memtest86 and see whether it passes okay. Is it overclocked?
            yea but its been overclocked for a long time.

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            • =98=
              Member
              • Oct 2006
              • 10299

              #7
              Re: Why did my puter...

              Then a component may be starting to go. If it's a high overclock (high vcore), possibly electromigration

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