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Anonymous1st March 2017 at 1:11 pm #123360
Assuming from what I’ve just read quickly that the CMOS battery is also known as the BIOS battery?
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 1:25 pm #123363Yes, its a little round flat battery similar looking to a watch battery, it might have come loose. There are plenty of images on the net, and probably the odd video on YouTube.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 2:08 pm #123375Blimey I’ve just read all through this post and am amazed at the knowledge you all have! I got lost floating on clouds eating some new form of chips and realising everything was a blinking nuisance! – Seriously though you are some very clever people and I thought I was progressing with technology by learning how to download a free App on my new tablet!!!
I hope you manage to get it all sorted VK with everyone’s help
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 2:41 pm #123407You want to get into android TV fruit, put kodi on, add a few addons and you will never go to bed.
1st March 2017 at 2:56 pm #123417Yes, I’m surprised as well, I know how to switch on and buy off of Ebay, etc. BIOS and SATA
Anyhow, one bit of advice I can give to VK is, don’t spend too much on any repairs as it won’t be long before Microsoft stop supporting 7, I’ve had to bin my beloved Vista laptop for a new Windows 10
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 3:10 pm #123420No time Bo. the free App I downloaded is to learn Italian and German!!! That’s enough for my grey matter without adding anything on!! Kodi? music? underwear?
GH the tablet I had for Christmas has Windows 10 – does this mean I’m up with the in crowd of technology?
1st March 2017 at 3:58 pm #123441Well, my laptop became obsolete when I walked out of PC World
Yes, Fruity it’s the latest up to date operating system, for now
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 4:08 pm #123444Why didn’t you update your laptop for free Gerry, and fruit, if its Duolingo, its far far better to use the full site via laptop or PC. Win 10 is full of nasty Microsoft spyware, sends info off to Microsoft all day and all night, then gets passed on to MI6 and the CIA. Be careful what you type, don’t want to be leaving yourself open to an unwanted drone strike, or an early morning visit from a highly trained Navy Seals team. Whatever you do, don’t do a search for how to make a dirty bomb.
While booting keep tapping the f2 button, this will bring up the BIOS menu and from that you can see what the boot order is, it’s normaly CD, HD, network. If it is this order you could try changing to HD, CD, network.
It’s really unlikely that the CMOS battery in a laptop will move as they’re (almost) always clipped in with a spring clip “over the top”. If the date & time were working OK then the battery is probably OK as these are the first things to go, in any event you should have been getting a warning message on start up if there was an issue.
If you want to drop the drive into my shop on the roundabout in Rostrenen I can check it for you, if it’s knackered I’ve a bunch of system pull drives.1st March 2017 at 4:43 pm #123450Bo, I would have to go from Vista to 7 then to 10, although it were a beloved laptop, it was an old Fujitsu/Siemens, so I thought **** this for a game of soldiers and put a hint out a Xmas for a new one
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 5:23 pm #123478A kind offer, Barty, may well take you up on that, but what is a ‘system pull drive’?
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 5:29 pm #123481Win 10 wasn’t available as a free upgrade to vista licence holder’s, its pay for the upgrade. Might be cheaper to buy a new laptop. Electro depot, ten months interest free, two years guarantee, but to be honest with you, most low priced new laptops are junk, may have win 10, plenty of memory, reasonably fast processor, but basically junk. Batteries last ten minutes, chargers pack up, fans get clogged with fluff. They come preloaded with so much junk, it takes hours for them to start up. I have an old HP laptop, 2005 model, running XP bare, no programs on it that I never use. Its as quick as my new Toshiba one, vastly superior soundcard, picks up the WiFi signal a lot better than the Toshiba, only thing the Toshiba has going for it, is more memory, better video playback, and its half the weight.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 5:35 pm #123484Funny you mention HP, Bo, I’ve come across this one: HP 255 G3 – 15.6″ E1 E1-6010 1.35 GHz 4 Go RAM 500 Go HDD, running Windows 8.1 64 bits, 185 euros second hand from Priceminster.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 5:41 pm #123492VK at the risk of being shot down by the PC brigade, I’d take the opportunity to upgrade to a Mac, IMO a second hand Mac is still far better than a new windoze machine :)
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 5:52 pm #123495Just had a quick look and saw a 2007 Macbook Pro for 219 euros, en “état correct”, whatever that may mean. I thought they were considerably more expensive than PCs running Windows.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 6:06 pm #123506Barty, using F2 I found it’s set to start from the HDD, changed it from ‘Normal’ to ‘Fast’ to see if that makes a difference. Also saw that the system time and date is correct, so following what you said I’m guessing it’s not the CMOS battery.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 6:21 pm #123511No difference, same blank black screen with the pointer in the middle.
It’s pointing to a failed hard drive, connection or bust motherboard.
“System pulls” are what they sound like, 2nd hand from working systems. In this case they’re from FreeSat recording boxes of which I had a load of faulty boxes the manufacturer didn’t want back, 320GB.
Anonymous1st March 2017 at 6:31 pm #123518None of those three sound very positive, Bart, but at least if it’s the motherboard and not the hard drive then the contents of the hard drive should be accessible?
And I’m really glad I bought my wife a tablet for Xmas and that she’s letting me use her laptop!
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