Sometimes my daughters computer says it wasn't shut down properly

[Sforsyth]

Sometimes my daughters computer says it wasn't shut down properly but it was and it is the first screen BOIS Screen that says it. I think it is this stick of cheap RAM but not sure what do you think?

Socket A Sempron 2800
nForce 2 MOBO
1 GB ram
2x 256
1x 512 really cheap ram

Memtest 2 passes pass no errors


Thanks.

 

[AnonymousBeefy]

I had that problem once I never found out what the problem was, but my PC started to degrade more and more after that :\ have there been any other issues recently? Anything that points towards a breakdown of your system?

 

[xtknight]

That's pretty odd. You're sure it's the BIOS? It's not the video card retaining it's VRAM is it?

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: AnonymousBeefy
I had that problem once I never found out what the problem was, but my PC started to degrade more and more after that :\ have there been any other issues recently? Anything that points towards a breakdown of your system?

Was there a way to fix it?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Your Cmos battery may be dieing this can cause the issue you describe on some motherboards I'd try replacing that and see how it goes. (cheap fix if it works too)

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: AnonymousBeefy
I had that problem once I never found out what the problem was, but my PC started to degrade more and more after that :\ have there been any other issues recently? Anything that points towards a breakdown of your system?

nope that the only thing it does sometime the FSB would change from 166mhz to 100 Mhz though and I'd have to go into the BOIS and change it back but thats it the system works fine after that.

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: xtknight
That's pretty odd. You're sure it's the BIOS? It's not the video card retaining it's VRAM is it?

You know on the first screen it say detecting Hard drive it happens there under that on the very first screen.

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
Your Cmos battery may be dieing this can cause the issue you describe on some motherboards I'd try replacing that and see how it goes. (cheap fix if it works too)

The system is only about a year old, do you think the battery would die after a year? and it's my spare system not left on a hole lot.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Probably a bad driver interfering with all of the things Windows does when it shuts down. The message is from Windows, the bios does not know whether Windows was shut down properly or not.

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
Probably a bad driver interfering with all of the things Windows does when it shuts down. The message is from Windows, the bios does not know whether Windows was shut down properly or not.

It's not the windows one, it is right at the start when I turn the pc on before windows starts to load. right under the FSB Mhz .

 

[Arcanedeath]

I re-iterate my suggestion, a bad cmoss battery can cause exactly what your describing, I had to replace a few in some ECS K7S5A's back in the day

 

[Seekermeister]

Sforsyth,

The system is only about a year old, do you think the battery would die after a year? and it's my spare system not left on a hole lot.

I have no idea if it is the CMOS battery or not, but how much you leave the computer on is not a factor, because the battery is in use continually. Especially, when the computer is not on.

 

[Sforsyth]

ok Guys thanks alot for all your help !