I have two questions about two machines.
** Machine 1:**Desktop. Asus P6T motherboard, Crucial 256GB SSD boot drive, Crucial 128GB data drive, several other HDDs for storage.
I can’t reboot without going into BIOS and setting the hard drives and boot priority, then saving and exiting. If I don’t, chances are the machine will try and boot into another drive and hang up during boot.
There’s another strange thing about this. I’d been using the 128GB SSD as a Win7 boot drive before cloning it to the 256GB. I haven’t deleted anything from it, I’m not in need of the space. But when the machine tries to boot from it (i.e. when I mess entering setup during reboot), it blue-screens with the basic drive not present/failed code. Since it was the boot drive for over a year, why would that be happening? Could it be because there are BIOS settings for both boot devices and boot priority, and if they’re not set to the same devise things go haywire?
Machine 2: Dell laptop, about four years old. No longer boots. When I try to get to BIOS settings, it hangs on the BIOS screens and responds with incredible lag. That is, I can see the standard Advanced, Power, Boot, etc. screens, but cannot navigate between them. Key presses are responded to several seconds to about a minute later.
My instinct, from years of reading about similar-sounding problems, is to replace the batteries on the boards. But since it’s something I’ve never had to do before, I thought to run the symptoms by the Board and see if that’s the right first mechanical step to take. If not, what other diagnostic steps are there at this stage (I’ve run Memtest on the desktp).
Also, if replace battery, is there a way to save the current BIOS settings so I can reset to the current configuration or do I need to write everything down? Is there anything Windows-wise that can at least read the BIOS states and do the writing down for me?
Thanks,
Rhythm