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Ordered a new one. Is it possible to track the battery % life it has got? I'll keep track of it when installing the new one.
Ordered a new one. Is it possible to track the battery % life it has got? I'll keep track of it when installing the new one.
Check your BIOS settings. If the CMOS power dropps below a certain level, the system loads factory default settings.
This can be BIOS instead of UEFI or RAID instead of AHCI. You have to find out.
Another option is to test the drive using Sea Tools bootable Long Generic test:
SeaTools Bootable | Seagate US
https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/...lsBootable.zip
i got a new CMOS battery fitted, but however the problem is not fixed.
Sometimes I can access Aptio Setup Utility, but sometimes not. Had to keeep doing a reset. The system clock goes back to 01/01/2010 each time.
In the boot, I choose from #1 option to boot from the Hard Drive, it didn't work.
But the question is this:
I have always booted from the SSD and it wasn't there in the choice list. Should that be there?
I have removed the SSD and put it back in but got no device to see if it's faulty.
Best guess- some kind of hardware failure- does the laptop have a working battery (not the CMOS one- the other one)?
If you can't reliably access the BIOS/UEFI settings...that's pretty basic.
Screenshots and guide for Aptio:
What Is Aptio Setup Utility? How to Access and Fix It? [Ultimate Guide]
Yes it does.
I presume getting a new SSD replacement won't work, and not a new hard drive.
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Also, I waited for a while when turning on laptop and the Aptio Setup Utility auto comes up, and the system time is correct.
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Is Win 10 on a HDD or SSD?
As I suggested before, you can create a live boot disk (of any kind initially, but one with utilities on it like, say, Bob Omb's or Hiren's which allow you to do some simple tests on your laptop) - then boot your PC from that.
That would give you some confidence in the basic hardware.
You could also then check the disks in the laptop.
@Megahertz- already done- post #14As system date and time is wrong you have to replace the BIOS coin battery (CR2032)
The boot options are different on a Legacy-MBR and UEFI-GPT.
We need to know what you have (hardware specs).
You probably had a non default BIOS configuration that was lost due to the battery failure.
In this case you will have do a BIOS configuration.
If you don't have a Win 10 installation drive I suggest you build the USB Win 10 22h2 installation drive using MCT so it can boot as Legacy or UEFI.
Boot from a Win 10 installation drive. During POST, press F12(?) to launch the boot menu. Select USB (Name).
At the Windows Setup screen, press Shift+F10 simultaneously to open a command line prompt and type:
diskpart
list disk
exit
With a cel phone take a snapshot of the results of list disk.
Updated the system info. It's both, SSD and Hard Drive.
However it did say now and again low SSD space as going over shortens the lifespan. I did keep it always just below 20GB, somewhere around 18GB (max 25GB) The windows updates were being put on there, rather that the hard drive.