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July 31, 2014 at 3:32 am
(July 31, 2014 at 2:36 am)Minimalist Wrote: Interesting....but there have been no power problems lately.
The second part refers to your situation.
Unless you know for a fact that your hd was developing errors, it's not uncommon for the incorrectly configured bios to stop you from booting. Also, many boot errors can be fixed by booting off the windows dvd and asking it to fix dodgy partitions.
If it can find the windows folder on the disk, it'll rewrite a new entry in the hard disk's boot sector.
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July 31, 2014 at 4:26 am
(July 31, 2014 at 1:38 am)ignoramus Wrote: If your power's been off for more than a few hours, your bios will default back, or if it cannot successfully boot to the OS, the bios will default.
This is by design to help the over clockers regain control if they (me) tweak beyond the stable limits.
Setting the bios back to default is one thing, automatically setting it to boot from a flashdrive though, that retarded.
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July 31, 2014 at 9:25 am
(July 31, 2014 at 2:36 am)Minimalist Wrote: Interesting....but there have been no power problems lately. Blame Al Gore! Ever since that asshole invented the internet, nothing works right!
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July 31, 2014 at 10:24 am
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(July 31, 2014 at 1:38 am)ignoramus Wrote: If your power's been off for more than a few hours, your bios will default back,
Are you sure you aren't mistaken about this? I've been building my own PCs for 21 years & have never heard of that feature. Kinda defeats the purpose of a BIOS battery. I own a dual-BIOS system that will use the backup BIOS if the 1st one was failing to POST, sure you aren't thinking of that?
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RE: Yo....
July 31, 2014 at 1:21 pm
(July 31, 2014 at 3:32 am)ignoramus Wrote: (July 31, 2014 at 2:36 am)Minimalist Wrote: Interesting....but there have been no power problems lately.
The second part refers to your situation.
Unless you know for a fact that your hd was developing errors, it's not uncommon for the incorrectly configured bios to stop you from booting. Also, many boot errors can be fixed by booting off the windows dvd and asking it to fix dodgy partitions.
If it can find the windows folder on the disk, it'll rewrite a new entry in the hard disk's boot sector.
It caused me to run "Start Up Repair" for a grand total of about 11 hours.
It did nothing except waste time.
When I put the new disk in after fixing the boot order it loaded up instantly.
I've got to see if I can find a converter today to turn my old SATA drive into a usb drive. See if I can extract any data that way.
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July 31, 2014 at 8:20 pm
(July 31, 2014 at 10:24 am)Jaysyn Wrote: (July 31, 2014 at 1:38 am)ignoramus Wrote: If your power's been off for more than a few hours, your bios will default back,
Are you sure you aren't mistaken about this? I've been building my own PCs for 21 years & have never heard of that feature. Kinda defeats the purpose of a BIOS battery. I own a dual-BIOS system that will use the backup BIOS if the 1st one was failing to POST, sure you aren't thinking of that?
You might be right with the battery, it should last longer.
My dual bios is to protect from corruption and also to have 2 profiles.
The manual states it will default back to bios after 3 failed attempts.
This makes sense as it allows you to select the backup bios.
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August 8, 2014 at 9:55 pm
Losty is about to get drunk 
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August 8, 2014 at 9:56 pm
(August 8, 2014 at 9:55 pm)Losty Wrote: Losty is about to get drunk
Just avoid getting into an alcoholic comma and you'll be fine. I have this personal experience that tells me there is nothing better than getting drunk by beer solely.
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August 8, 2014 at 10:03 pm
Lol. I may or may not have accidentally posted that in the wrong thread 
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August 8, 2014 at 10:07 pm
(August 8, 2014 at 9:56 pm)Blackout Wrote: Just avoid getting into an alcoholic comma and you'll be fine.
I don't want to get into an alcoholic comma, but I may need help identifying one. Does it look like this?
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