On 19/04/2012 16:04, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Apr 19, 3:30 pm, John wrote:
On 19/04/2012 11:57, Man at B&Q wrote:









On Apr 19, 10:02 am, "Paul D wrote:
wrote in message

...

In , Winston
writes

This looks interesting from
http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...wont-boot-4923
91.html:

Thanks for that. Yes, I followed that advice, upgraded the BIOS and it
has behaved perfectly since then.

Both the solutions (freeze or leave for long time) sound like ways of
clearing the BIOS (freezing car radios used to be a way to clear their
security codes!).

If there is an accessible battery (probably not) then pull it and leave for
a week might do the same job. Or there may even be a way to force clearing
the BIOS on boot.

Paul DS

Talking ********.

I don't think he is actually.

The BIOS is in Flash memory. You don't want to clear that.

I think you will find he is referring to the BIOS Data Area

I know that. He should refer to things properly.

data which
are held in a small amount of storage maintained in battery backed CMOS
RAM.

It has nothing to do with the Flash memory used to hold the BIOS program
code itself.

The code in the Flash *is* "the BIOS". When you update "the BIOS" you
are updating the code in the Flash, not the contents of the "CMOS" as
it is sometimes referred to.

Yes I realise all that. However I got the impression (admittedly reading
a little between the lines) that Paul was really referring to the CMOS
battery backed storage rather than the flash, since corrupt CMOS data
can bork a machine on startup... however I will let him confirm one way
or another.



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Cheers,

John.

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