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timmmay

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#207466 27-Dec-2016 16:49
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I just took my computer apart, took out all drives, and put in an SSD from my wife's old laptop. It wouldn't boot, so I plugged my drives back in.

Now I'm in a strange loop. Computer powers on, stays on 5 to 10 seconds, then turns off. Sometimes I get to a screen that says gigabyte dual BIOS, sometimes screen stays blank.

I've tried with just my system disk, with just a USB boot disk, and I've tried turning power off for 15 mins. Nothing helped.

Any ideas?


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  #1695470 27-Dec-2016 17:40
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I've just used a screwdriver to reset the bios cmos. It's told me the main bios is corrupt and is restoring from the backup BIOS. This did indeed fix it. Took a while to work out though. Thanks all for the help :)


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