Hey all, I don't know much about computers, but enough to be dangerous I guess, so excuse any misuse of terms.
I woke up this morning to boot my computer from sleep and it would not turn on, but the front LED was blinking as though it were still asleep. I did a hard reset, and when it went to boot I got the "Disc Read Error, Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del" and after rebooting again a couple times, I occasionally get a screen that shows the status of my hardware, and at the bottom (I think) is a message about some error with my CMOS (I don't know what it was exactly, I can only get that screen to pop up on occasion of resetting).
After some research I reset the BIOS to default setting, Cleared the CMOS with the jumper thing according to my Motherboard Manual, but it still won't boot after sleep. I found I was able to boot directly to my hard drive from the selection and am typing this on the computer I'm having a problem with now.
So, after a bit more research, it seems like maybe the battery for my CMOS is dead? I don't know, like I said I can get everything going fine, it's just after sleeping it won't boot.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit: Also, if it sounds like it is my battery, is there any definitive way to test this? Thanks.
I woke up this morning to boot my computer from sleep and it would not turn on, but the front LED was blinking as though it were still asleep. I did a hard reset, and when it went to boot I got the "Disc Read Error, Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del" and after rebooting again a couple times, I occasionally get a screen that shows the status of my hardware, and at the bottom (I think) is a message about some error with my CMOS (I don't know what it was exactly, I can only get that screen to pop up on occasion of resetting).
After some research I reset the BIOS to default setting, Cleared the CMOS with the jumper thing according to my Motherboard Manual, but it still won't boot after sleep. I found I was able to boot directly to my hard drive from the selection and am typing this on the computer I'm having a problem with now.
So, after a bit more research, it seems like maybe the battery for my CMOS is dead? I don't know, like I said I can get everything going fine, it's just after sleeping it won't boot.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit: Also, if it sounds like it is my battery, is there any definitive way to test this? Thanks.
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