BIOS Failure
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:28 pm
Hi everyone.
My daughter has been having numerous problems with her PC on start up with mouse and screen crashes etc and we noticed the date kept reverting to 2002. Then the PC finally crashed and would not start, so we changed the battery and the PC immediately got going again.
However, this time the boot sequence stalled almost immediately, before it got to the bit where it identifies the hardware and displayed a message on the lines of -"BIOS has some files missing and cannot continue - please insert start up disk in A "
As we never had any problems with the BIOS booting before we changed the battery, is it possible for this to happen because of a battery failure ? If so can anyone suggest what we should do now. I do not think we have the ability to update the bios.
Our mobo is a PC Chips 810LR and the BIOS chip is An American Megatrends Award
My daughter has been having numerous problems with her PC on start up with mouse and screen crashes etc and we noticed the date kept reverting to 2002. Then the PC finally crashed and would not start, so we changed the battery and the PC immediately got going again.
However, this time the boot sequence stalled almost immediately, before it got to the bit where it identifies the hardware and displayed a message on the lines of -"BIOS has some files missing and cannot continue - please insert start up disk in A "
As we never had any problems with the BIOS booting before we changed the battery, is it possible for this to happen because of a battery failure ? If so can anyone suggest what we should do now. I do not think we have the ability to update the bios.
Our mobo is a PC Chips 810LR and the BIOS chip is An American Megatrends Award