I had to mark it unsolved again because I just restarted after installing the latest cumulative update to Win 1909 and I am back in the same situation. If I say to set time zone automatically, it...

OK, I tried that and it seems to have worked but yesterday i did this and every time I turned on auto detect, it went back to pacific but now its working so I attribute it to your magic touch. ...

Hi,

I'm normally in Texas but I have been in Panama for a few weeks which is on the same time zone as Texas. Now I am back in Texas (central time) For some reason now, windows thinks im in...

Hi Ken,

Yes I've tried F2, F10, escape. nothing happens on the screen now. I wondered if there is enough low level intelligence to talk to the USB wired keyboard. The CMOS battery is easily...

Thank you for all your help. I have created the other thread as you suggested.

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Ok Rich/Ztruker,

I can do that. What does the cmos battery do? I just thought it kept...

This is a reposting of case: https://www.tenforums.com/bsod-crashes-debugging/152589-bsod-driver_power_state_failure.html as suggested by Zbook who was extremely helpful with his analysis. Thank...

Well, I tested the battery with a volt meter and its 3.15 volts so it should be good. As you know, I removed it. I also found the jumper position to clear CMOS and tried that but still to no avail....

I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean the battery? I was also planning to take the metal cover off and look for the jumper. Should I do that first?

Ok, and thanks again for all your time spent on this. I removed the CMOS battery and with the power disconnected, held down the power button for 30 secs then reconnected the power but still nothing...

Nothing sadly. The power button lights up (I can see now that it’s dark outside) but nothing happens when I hit F10. 😢

Hi Again,

Well, I read the info. There are no beeps at boot time. The only thing I can hear is the head of the optical drive being accessed.

I downloaded the UEFI SW onto a flash drive but...

OK, will do. I have to leave shortly so It will probably be tomorrow when I complete the tasks. Thanks so much again for your help.

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I'm just getting back to this and now...

Well I power cycled the computer and reran the BIOS update and it finished this time...

BIOS version is now: AMI 8.15, 6/12/2014

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I Understand. I didn't realize the...

I tried to do the BIOS update and the firmware update utility ran and then froze at "verifying flash 83%" and the system seems to be totally locked up. CTRL ALT DEL doesn't work. I think I will have...

Sorry, I missed the Command prompt part. Here's what I got:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.720]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /enum...

I ran the powershell script and here is the output. Note that there was a syntax error in the bcdedit command:

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Wow, that's quick. Thank you! Can you say more about why those updates?

This has started happening repeatedly on my friends computer. It might be connected to a TPLINK Archer T4U USB WiFi adapter i recently installed for her. Its an older i3 system and only had 2.4Ghz...

I have it set to Windows Spotlight per my original post but the image is always the same.

Well when I said rotating, I meant it shows a new picture each time I see the lock screen on my laptop whereas on my desktop it's always the same image.

I understand what you are saying about...

Every time I boot or wake from sleep, my laptop displays a cool new image from Bing, presumably, but on my desktop this does not happen - I get the same image every time and I'd like it to change...

OK, this is probably a highly subjective question but I've been using Norton for years but now that I'm on Win10 and my Norton subs is up, I wonder if I should just rely on Windows built in tools...

ok, I installed the latest updates for the 1511 upgrade so I have the latest now. will have to see again...

Does it matter if I'm using Chrome and not Edge as my browser?

ok well I signed in but it didn't ask for a code because I've previously told it to trust but then I looked at the security settings per option 3 and when I wanted to go to security, it wanted to...