ASUS x55c laptop, originally had windows 8 , windows 7 was installed over a year ago and had worked fine.
I recently had to run some maintenance cleaning(adwcleaner) as it had picked up some things that were slowing it down immensely and probably causing some of the boot issues( i thought, this is my daughters machine and she is visiting) all went well, but still issues including some really long black screens before it booted.
I got into BIOS and changed the boot order so that i could boot UBCD, i saw several posts elsewhere that indicated that boot issue can be caused by CMS and disabled it.
From that point on, when i save an restart, it just boots right back into BIOS.
Turn it off for a few hours, now its not booting at all.=, which happened before as well, two lights appear with a black screen.
Just now, it booted to the BIOS screen but then quickly turned to this:
hard power down and its back to the BIOS set up screen:
American Megatrends
Version 404
GOP version 2.0.35.1018
EC version 204E120001
Bootom of the BIOS screen reads:
Version 2.15.1226. Copy write 2012 American Megatrends. inc.
here is the issue now, i cannot see or change the boot order, now matter what i change and save or when i save and exit, it turns off, restarts and goes right back to the BIOS screen.
Is this this hosed?
this unit has something called "easy Flash" where i can update the BIOS should i find and update the BIOS?
any other ideas?
Thanks
I recently had to run some maintenance cleaning(adwcleaner) as it had picked up some things that were slowing it down immensely and probably causing some of the boot issues( i thought, this is my daughters machine and she is visiting) all went well, but still issues including some really long black screens before it booted.
I got into BIOS and changed the boot order so that i could boot UBCD, i saw several posts elsewhere that indicated that boot issue can be caused by CMS and disabled it.
From that point on, when i save an restart, it just boots right back into BIOS.
Turn it off for a few hours, now its not booting at all.=, which happened before as well, two lights appear with a black screen.
Just now, it booted to the BIOS screen but then quickly turned to this:
hard power down and its back to the BIOS set up screen:
American Megatrends
Version 404
GOP version 2.0.35.1018
EC version 204E120001
Bootom of the BIOS screen reads:
Version 2.15.1226. Copy write 2012 American Megatrends. inc.
here is the issue now, i cannot see or change the boot order, now matter what i change and save or when i save and exit, it turns off, restarts and goes right back to the BIOS screen.
Is this this hosed?
this unit has something called "easy Flash" where i can update the BIOS should i find and update the BIOS?
any other ideas?
Thanks