boot up issue

Often, re-seating the memory will fix this problem. If you have more then one memory module installed, pull them out one at a time, rebooting everytime you remove one. This should isolate the bad stick.

If you only have one memory stick, just remove and replace it.

Good luck.

The first option that I would look at is a Bad BIOS Battery on a desktop machine and replace the 3 V Lithium Battery coded numbered CR2032. And make sure that the new battery goes in the same way as the old one came out as just last week someone posted here and insisted that they had replaced the battery but eventually admitted that they put it in the wrong way round so there was no power from the battery.

For software The Ultimate Boot CD is about your best option and can be downloaded from here

http://tinyurl.com/3jnpy

If this is a NB some use the standard BIOS Battery in a remote holder and others use a rechargeable battery on the M'Board either of these can give problems and if you have one of the ones soldered onto the M'Board they can & do break and destroy the M'Board in the process as they cover the surrounding area of the M'Board with the contents of the battery which will eventually cause the M'Board Tracks and other circuity to corrode and fail.

Col

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

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that is what belarc has detected guys have changed the battery