BIOS Upgrade?
MsMaria:
Sorry again for replying so late, I had to reboot again. Not to mention everything I just typed didn't "take"? Also forgot to mention my mouse seems to work only when it feels like it. For instance, I click on reply and it takes 45 seconds to show the reply box. Same thing with scrolling. I have to wait for the page to scroll when it is good and ready.
I can't see any power info from behind, so I will check the inside tomorrow. I'm beginning to think everything is breaking at once. Appreciate your info regarding the BIOS.
Thanks again. I was just thinking how many times a day I have to do a hard reboot and it is like 4-6 times a day; either because of icons disappearing or pages just getting stuck. Bleh.
nectere:
I had a computer that did reboots and it turned out to be a battery issue. But that was a pretty old box.
I would follow Pescado's advice and simply reformat and reinstall, its the cheapest solution (free is a very good price) and its really not that painful. I realize it can be a little scary the first time you do it, but its really not that bad - because to me, this sounds like what is needed here - you have more than one thing going on that really isnt consistent with needing a bios upgrade....more like an operating environment problem thats crapping out. Make a recovery disk and or find all your drivers and back them up on cd or disks and then reformat and reinstall.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: MsMaria on 2006 August 04, 03:14:35
I'll make sure I turn the game and computer off at night; that was my short-term solution anyway. I will check out my monitor as well.
Turning the computer off is bad for it: The constant cooling and reheating produced by shutting off and restarting the computer causes thermal stress to the parts. The computer should thus be left on. Most computers die when you attempt to turn them back on after having turned them off.
Brynne:
Reformatting and reinstalling really is pretty easy. I learned how to do it on my old Thinkpad years ago. Not difficult at all.
Paperbladder:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 August 04, 05:28:57
Turning the computer off is bad for it: The constant cooling and reheating produced by shutting off and restarting the computer causes thermal stress to the parts. The computer should thus be left on. Most computers die when you attempt to turn them back on after having turned them off.
By the time this happens though, the computer is pretty much obselete anyway. Then again, I may just be incredibly lucky that I haven't had a computer crap out completely yet.
I believe if you screw up the BIOS flashing for anything, the device that has the flash on it is toast. I believe I screwed up a modem in this way, but I can still access it so it could just be bad firmware.
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