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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
Remove the USB after installation is finished. Otherwise, it will boot-load the USB to start the installation process over again.
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
I just had the same problem after upgrading the BIOS. I created a USB installation media for Windows 10, then changed the boot option accordingly.
When windows came to its finishing up stage and ...
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HP ZBOOK 17 G4, MO LA-E171P BIOS locked
The
Blinking Light Codes; Post Error Messages - HP ZBook Studio x360
says:
Caps/num lock lights 7 blinks : Sure Start unable to find valid BIOS Boot Block image
Although this manual is for another ...
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How to get into UEFI BIOS if flash screen does no longer show & default keypress no longer works?
For anybody having the same or a similar problem:
What finally helped me was clearing the NVRAM (or CMOS RAM) by shortening the needed pins on the mainboard with a detached power cord.
Then I didn't ...
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Using 128 GB of RAM on a Lenovo P50 20EN-0006GE
Seems Lenovo P50 use Skylake. All mobile Skylake CPUs max out at 64GB. Ditto for Kaby lake. You need Coffee Lake or newer to go beyond 64GB on a Intel laptop :(
For example i5-9400T is a mobile CPU ...
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Using 128 GB of RAM on a Lenovo P50 20EN-0006GE
According to the specifications, the P50's max memory is 64GB:
Chipset: Mobile Intel CM236 Chipset (Intel GL82CM236 PCH)
Memory: 64GB max⁷ / 2133MHz DDR4, ECC or non-ECC (ECC function supported only ...
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Using 128 GB of RAM on a Lenovo P50 20EN-0006GE
It seems like you bought Crucial memory but have not taken a look
at its page of
Lenovo ThinkPad P50 | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades.
Here is what it says :
This fact is confirmed by your experience -...
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ASUS Zenith Extreme - Wake on LAN not working from android
I followed guide (quite long, so not cited here: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045950/ )
and I see your steps not include simple "Allow this device to wake computer".
Try this and get ...
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0190 critical low battery error only on boot lenovo x 1 carbon gen 7
I have such a machine and I used a certified Lenovo dealer to replace the battery and it works fine.
Lenovobatt is not a certified replacement source so far as I can see.
Accordingly, I suggest ...
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BIOS error temps: Sometimes jumps 30 degrees with no explanation
Most likely is an issue with the correct reporting of temperature, rather than that the temperature actually changed. The reasoning behind that is:
Temperature does not change instantly (unless ...
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Why don't PC makers lock the bootloader?
There are many different levels of "why". From a practical perspective, your phone is in your pocket or purse and is unlikely to acquire any peripherals. In other words, it has poor physical ...
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Old laptop won't recognize installed SSD
The solution was to do a fresh installation of Windows 10.
Cloning wasn't enough since it couldn't make the laptop recognize the SSD.
What helped was to start a Windows 10 installation from another PC ...
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Why don't PC makers lock the bootloader?
When using devices which needs to be accredited to security standards, due to the sensitivity of the data being processed, there are guidance documents about how to apply device security (aka locking ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
Your question as written asks about checking the CMOS battery, but as intended is really about your system jumping ahead 26.5 hours. It's a bit of a leap, but look into Windows Secure Time Seeding as ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
You can check a reading of the battery voltage with HWiNFO: https://www.hwinfo.com/
Here's an example of it, from my motherboard:
My MSI B450 Tomahawk Max uses the chip Nuvoton NCT6797D, which can ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
Building on John's answer:
You will need to remove the CMOS battery and check if there is any voltage with a digital meter. A DMM (Digital MultiMeter) cannot do a capacity check - just voltage. Be ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
There’s probably no way to get this information without completely removing the battery from your system and checking it using specialized battery testing hardware.
It’s theoretically possible for the ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
As you did not tell at which date in the past your clock showed the correct time I recommend you checking the drift of your clock before touching your mainboard CMOS battery.
Here in the middle of ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
What is your computer model? Batteries wouldn't appear for
a desktop, and even for a laptop they don't include data about
the CMOS battery.
CMOS battery testing requires hardware support on
the ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
The battery cannot be checked from anywhere. I have yet to encounter a PC that would offer a voltage reading on the CMOS battery.
It is highly likely the article you link is low-quality blog-spam, ...
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Checking CMOS battery without going into the BIOS
BIOS Applications to read BIOS variables are not all that common.
Best, I think, is simply to restart in BIOS and check there. I do not think CMOS battery capacity availability is there. Battery ...
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Keyboard pre-boot doesn't work properly
The solution for me was to switch the keyboard switch to BIOS mode (Corsair K70). This will switch it to be compatible with BIOS etc. Then I could type the password normally. For a keyboard to work in ...
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Windows Blue screen of death Inaccesible boot device After BIOS Factory Default
If anybody else had the problem, it was my SATA, so you should look up the correct SATA config. (Mine was AHCI)
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Cleared CMOS and now Windows won't load
@TomYan helped me figure this out. It looks like at some point, "Enable VMD controller" was set to Enabled. When I disabled it, the issue was fixed right away.
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