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On 01/31/15 23:42, Dale wrote: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> Hi Joseph, |
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>>>> may be only a accidental coincidence... |
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>>>> One thing I can think of is an empty bios coin cell. |
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>>> If that battery is flat, the bios will complain settings are gone. |
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>>> Why would that cause grub to fail? |
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>> Dont know the reason...I only experienced it several times... |
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>> Regards |
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>> Meino |
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>I've had it happen to me once too. In my case, the BIOS just went back |
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>to default settings. The only real change was the loss of the clock |
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>setting but it didn't complain, it just booted. After I replaced the |
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>battery, I went back and changed my settings to what I remembered them |
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>being. |
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>Since then, I change that battery every few years, while the system is |
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>running so that I don't lose any settings at all. ;-) Be careful. |
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>Dale |
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Is there a way to backup bios setting to a text file etc.; beside special Windows utility? |
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Joseph |
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