Questions tagged [bios]
The BIOS (basic input/output system) of an IBM-compatible PC is a ROM which performs the POST (power-on self-test), initializes the peripheral devices, and provides a basic firmware interface.
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Ideapad 320-15ISK not booting when inserting RAM upgrade
I have purchased a refurbished 8GB, 2400MHz DDR4 RAM stick (M471R1K43BB1-CRC) for my Lenovo Ideapad 320ISK which originally has a 4GB, 2133MHz stick soldered into it.
When I insert the new stick, it ...
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How to unlock Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 BIOS hidden menu and possibly enable UEFI support
Apparently Dell decided for N5110 to use BIOS instead of UEFI,
but according to a user njoker link
"IT HAS A RIDICULOUS LEGACY BIOS LAYER ON TOP OF A TIANO UEFI IMPLEMENTATION"
How to enable ...
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Installing Linux by booting from USB
I'm trying to install Linut Mint 20.2 MATE but my attempt to boot it from a USB drive has failed miserably.
I downloaded Rufus and set everything up but when I stick the USB in and turn on the ...
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Dell XPS L5112Z on boot "Operation System not found" after Ubuntu install but after Windows 10 everything works fine
TL;DR: I have a Dell XPS L5112Z that boots perfectly fine after a fresh Windows 10 installation but is stuck at "Operation System not found" after a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 installation.
I have ...
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Laptop boots after trying multiple times
I have a Dell Latitude E5420. When I try to boot, I get the bios splash screen after which I only get a black screen and the drive activity light is also off. After trying to boot for a couple times ...
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Access BIOS from an external monitor
Laptop display is not working properly. It is showing a white screen when turn on. I need to access BIOS of this laptop.
What I have tried so far and failed:
Set project settings as "Secondary ...
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Computer won't boot after memory upgrade
I upgraded the memory on a computer, it's a roughly 4 year old PC, I switched the memory from a 4Gb to 8Gb and I think it won't boot though I'm not quite sure, it shows no image, not even the BIOS ...
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Motherboard bios is randomly resetting bios settings after reboots?
have a PC with multiple issues and idk where to start debugging, the components are expensive and difficult to replace (because of the water-cooling system, even replacing the GPU is non-trivial), any ...
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How do I get out of this repetitive BIOS update issue?
I did an update to the BIOS in September 2021, bringing it from F.21 to F.22, and I didn't run into any problems until now. I have an HP Notebook 15-dy1751ms, currently on Windows 11.
On the day of ...
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Laptop only boots when no internal drive is connected
TLDR: Laptop will not even boot to the BIOS menu when an internal SSD or HDD is connected, there is no visible damage on the motherboard. When booting from a sometimes working and long time taking USB ...
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Computer keeps booting into BIOS when disabling legacy BIOS and enabling UEFI
I am trying to install Windows 11 and it requires my machine to have a secure boot functionality. For that, I need to enable UEFI for the devices and/or disable legacy BIOS.
I am trying to do that in ...
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Dell Precision M4800 will not boot after installing Windows 10
I've recently attempted to upgrade my old Dell Precision M4800 from Windows 7 to Windows 10, but I believe I screwed something up in the process, because it doesn't seem to boot properly anymore.
I ...
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Can't see HDD after enabling Secure Boot for Windows 11
Windows 11 is coming out, and according to the diagnostic tool I need to enable Secure Boot and TPM in order to upgrade. The TPM part was easy enough, however, the Secure Boot doesn't really work.
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DVD-RW and 3.5 inch Floppy Drive recognized in BIOS. Neither can be read
The bios recognizes both the 3.5 inch Floppy and the DVD-RW, but as I try to boot from the DVD drive, it tries and fails to read any disk.
I installed FreeDOS onto a SATA HDD to test drive function. ...
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Laptop not being able to comeback when restarts. Not powering on after restart
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I hope you can help me with this issues. I will tell you specifically what is the problem. I'm using HP Elitebook 2570p i7 3rd gen with 8GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and not having a ...
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HP G62 BIOS Shutting down for overheating with no actual overheating
I've got a HP G62 notebook that randomly shuts down blaming overheating.
Well, for me it's very unexpected because there's no heat in the carcass and the temperature measurings are all okay (40ºC ~ ...
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Why does reinstalling Windows 10 with a recovery drive fail with a Unable to recover-System drive too small message?
Pulling my hair trying to fix my son's Lenovo Desktop (Legion Y520T). It started out with him trying to install more ram memory, moving from 1x8GB to 2x16GB. This didn't work, most likely since the PC ...
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Ubuntu installed on external SSD - won't show up in boot menu
So I have recently installed Ubuntu on my external SSD, and it works fine to boot it up on my laptop, but it won't show up in the boot menu on my desktop with an ASUS motherboard. Fastboot and ...
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BIOS boot options disappeared, can't create options or boot into any OS
My system is and ASUS laptop dual-booting Windows and Fedora Linux, using Grub, the OSes are installed in a NVMe SSD while most of my data is in another HD.
Everything was working fine when today I ...
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SATA devices not showing up as bootable devices after lightning strike but they do work
Lightning stuck my house last night and forced every electric thing on my house to shut down.
Thankfully, my PC is not broken (at least the main components I guess) and when I tried to turn it back on,...
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BIOS only shows Manjaro installed usb devices
I have a laptop that came with Windows 10 and I wiped the disk to install Arch. But I screwed up on the bootloader or grub stuff (probably) and It didn't boot. So after that I decided to install ...
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Asus to set USB boot style from UEFI/EFI to BIOS
On my Asus laptop,
I've disabled the Secure Boot Control, and
I've enabled [Launch CSM] (Compatibility Support Module)
I partitioned my HD using MBR
All my systems on my Asus laptop are boot from ...
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Keyboard got disabled until Ubuntu login screen (requesting ideas for 4 questions)
My situation:
a HP Laptop Pavilion Model 15
Ubuntu 18
Before Ubuntu Login Screen: Keyboard not working except Ctrl+Alt+Del
On Ubuntu Login Screen: Keyboard fully functionable
No PS/2 port
Motherboard ...
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How to change the size of shared system memory?
I have a situation here. Today, I checked the graphics properties of my PC and I found this:
Total available graphics memory : 956 MB
Dedicated video memory: 0 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared ...
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Computer will not boot bios or POST
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Computer powers on, fans turn, rgb lights up, but computer will not POST, boot bios, BEEP, or display anything on monitor.
Back History
Was playing Warzone and computer rebooted randomly.
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I am stuck on the motheboard's logo after trying to boot from an USB drive
I recently build my own computer and I want to install Windows 10 on it so I created a bootable USB drive with the Windows "Media Creation Tool" but when I try to boot on the drive in UFI I ...
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PC keeps looping restart after bios
Got a new (old) PC, and every time I try to power it on, it posts, goes through bios, then before trying to load windows, it restarts itself, everytime, it won't go past the bios menu, have tried ...
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Got "No bootable device" after converting disk using mbr2gpt and switching to UEFI
I have a windows 10 laptop, and I wanted to convert my MBR hard disk to GPT so I can switch from Legacy BIOS to UEFI (I made sure that my laptop supports UEFI).
I ran mbr2gpt.exe and the conversion ...
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Can't access BIOS during boot, only removing the battery
Since I've assembled this PC a few months ago, I've seen this behavior. When I turn on the PC, its lights shine, the screen stays dark for around 5 seconds and then the Windows logon screen appears. ...
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Motherboard not detecting GPU, BIOS/Grub screen not showing, Ubuntu successfully loads and working with 1050TI
My specs:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 1050TI Palit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
RAM: HyperX Fury 32GB 3600MHz CL18 (HX436C18FB3/32) (Working at 3200MHz because of CPU maximum)
Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO (...
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Two identical motherboards, same bios, one refuses to work with Zen 3 Ryzen
I have 2 MSI PRO VDH MAX B450 motherboards, both running the latest May 2021 BC BIOS
One works fine with every CPU I have, an Athlon 3000g, a 3300x, and a 5600x.
However, the second board refuses to ...
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USB partition not recognised in bios of intel D945GTP
Using disk utility on macOS Big Sur, I have formatted a USB drive and it is now "USB External Physical Disk • GUID Partition Map." The partition is seen as "USB External Physical Volume ...
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What would cause my PC to turn on when I flip the switch on the Power Supply?
So I started a new PC build with the Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P motherboard and the Ryzen 9 5950X CPU. The motherboard doesn't support the CPU out of the box, so I'm not getting any display. To resolve ...
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boot device missing or boot device failed (lenovo)
how do i fix "boot device missing or boot device failed" like 2hours ago I updated bios using lenovo vantage, it all looked normal but few minutes after browsing web this error popped up. my ...
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Switchable graphics vs Discrete graphics on Lenovo Legion 5
I recently made some changes in BIOS mode and I do not remember if I changed the graphics option. Now it is set to Discrete Graphics, but what was the default graphics? Searching in internet did not ...
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EEPC has been corrupted
Just booted my computer and got this message at boot time:
"EEPC has been corrupted"
Could not boot back into windows.
When i booted an ubuntu livecd i saw that all the files were ok.
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Dell E5430 BIOS menu says "File System Not Found!" when I click "Add Boot Option"
I have two Dell E5430 laptops, and I'm encountering this problem on both of them:
When I boot up the system I press F12 and then select BIOS settings. Within the BIOS settings I navigate to the page ...
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EFI Ubuntu not booting or shown in bios
After having installed Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 LTS, when starting my laptop it throws an error stating "No bootable device". When I enter the boot options menu by spamming F12 on startup, I ...
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Windows 10 21H1 two distinct issues: Most likely related to TPM/Secure Boot
Update: New question with more current information over here: Windows 10 Bootup Slowness Issue Part 2
This will be a bit longwinded so bear with me.
A few days ago, I got the notification that Windows ...
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Same screen keeps loading when trying to boot from USB
I installed Slax Linux onto my USB drive and used the Universal USB installer to make it bootable. I ran the bootinst.bat file and it said I was good to go. Then I changed the boot sequence in my BIOS ...
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After performing a cmos battery reset, the bios stays the same. Does anyone have any solutions to this?
I unplugged my laptop from the power source. Then I opened it up and once inside, I disconnected the battery from the motherboard, and then disconnected the CMOS battery as well.
I then held the power ...
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Cannot access the BIOS while CSM is disabled
I've disabled CSM in the BIOS of the DS3H B450 motherboard, because it is required for secure boot (which in turn is required to update to Windows 11) but doing so has locked me out of the rest of the ...
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windows won't boot after a clean installation on a new ssd "Insert bootable media device and press any key to continue"
I recently decided to switch over to an SSD in my custom rig from my old HDD, installing Windows 10 from a hard drive onto said SSD. Upon completing the installation, as my computer reboots, it simply ...
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Wlan/wifi missing in Toshiba P50-C-11V laptop
I am helping a friend fix his computer but I have been battling with the problem for over 5hours.
It's a Toshiba Satellite laptop, model P50-C-11v
The wifi icon is not displayed on the taskbar.
It is ...
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Gigabyte motherboard BIOS version, F3 or F5?
My desktop has been experiencing random hard reboots for about 2 weeks (roughly once a day).
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 v1.0
CPU: AMD A4-5300
BIOS version: F3, dated 2012-09-28
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Unable to Enable Virtualisation W10 Home
I am a PC noob, but understand the benefits of having a VM set up. Thus, I am trying to set one up on my laptop. My specs are below (taken from System Information):
OS Name - ...
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Using only 50% of CPU in Acer one 14 Z422
The above image did not take while running CPU-hungry applications.
I am using Acer one 14 Z422. I installed Windows 10 pro. Updated to 21H1 update and installed all optional updates. The base ...
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Desktop won't start and shows CPU EZ debug LED solid red light after enabling SVM
After enabling Secure Virtual Machine (SVM), my pc doesn't boot and shows solid red light on the CPU EZ debug LED.
I recently updated my BIOS to the latest version (7A37v1MV Beta version).
I have no ...
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Windows not booting, Asus logo appears and then disappears after 5 seconds
I have an Asus Vivobook X541UA with non-removable battery. I turned it on today after 2 weeks. When I press the power button, the LED indicators light up normally, the OEM logo of Asus appears too but ...
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Changed Bios Boot Settings - Now Windows won't Boot
I've got a 500GB Samsung NVME drive running Win 10 Pro that is throwing this error when trying to boot:
Your PC needs to be repaired. The application or operating system couldn’t be loaded
because a ...
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