Laptop goes to the BIOS

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:37:20 -0700, T wrote:

On 2020-07-20 15:36, T wrote:
On 2020-07-20 15:17, BugHunter wrote:
T schreef op Ma 20 Jul 2020 om 14:55:
On 2020-07-20 14:51, T wrote:
On 2020-07-19 11:46, BugHunter wrote:
I have a 5 year old Laptop Asus A540S here
and when I start it it goes straight to the
BIOS.

Now I have a Live stick with Linux Mint and there
he would like to start up. I can do without
problems on the 2 partitions of the hard disk
look, it all looks healthy.

Any idea what I can still do?



Hi Bug,

I see this all the time.* It "typically" (watch the
weasel word) means the bios can't find anything to
boot off of.

Get yourself a W10 install flash drive and boot
off it.

You can create a W10 install flash drive from your
Mint stick.* Let me know if you need directions

Go into to maintenance and run the
repair boot thingy:

Windows 10 Won’t Boot? Fix it with Startup Repair and BootRec Commands
By

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/fix...epair-bootrec/


And if it works, you got lucky.

And if you got lucky, DO NOT TEST FATE!* Replace your
hard drive.* Now is a good excuse to upgrade to
an SSD drive!

:-)

-T


What kind of machine did you write your post on?


A W10 desktop.

Thanks for your messages, now I know I can replace
the Corrupt harddisc for a SSD.


There is a silver lining in every cloud!

If replacing with an NVMe SSD drive, keep in mind
they REQUIRE EUFI and gpt partitioning.

W10's installer will take care of all that for you,
but the BIOS must support EUFI and GPT.* (I do
not know why a motherboard with an NVMe slot
would not support EUFI adn gpt, but ...)

NVMe is ~ twice as fast as a SATA SSD drive


Oh, only go with Samsung SSD drives. The cost a bit more
but they don't brick on your ass.

It's funny that mechanical hard drives are still more reliable
than SSDs. That's why SSDs are not used in enterprise systems.
How fast are SAS hard drives compared to SSDs?

In article , Lucifer
wrote:


It's funny that mechanical hard drives are still more reliable
than SSDs.

no they're not.

That's why SSDs are not used in enterprise systems.

yes they are.

How fast are SAS hard drives compared to SSDs?

slower.

Lucifer wrote:

How fast are SAS hard drives compared to SSDs?

SAS is actually pretty slow.

*******

And here's a little joke product for you.

"Seagate reveals worlds fastest SSD - 10GB per second"

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...stest-ssd.html

That uses all 16 lanes of your video card slot. At
a guess, PCI Express Revision 3 lanes. Due to the
buffer size on the bus hub in the chipset, the
interface cannot run at wire speed.

OK, now do the math for us, and tell us how many
SAS drives in RAID0 that would take to equal.

And that's not the fastest drive, it's the fastest
drive we're allowed to know about.

Paul

Lucifer schreef op Vr 24 Jul 2020 om 13:21:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:25:38 +0200, BugHunter
wrote:

Corvid schreef op Zo 19 Jul 2020 om 12:15:
On 07/19/2020 11:46 AM, BugHunter wrote:
I have a 5 year old Laptop Asus A540S here and when I start it it
goes straight to the BIOS.

Linightz figured out his keyboard was causing the same problem.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?40888-Automatically-go-into-BIOS-every-time-start-up

Autoimmune disorder - your laptop is rejecting its own keyboard.

Now I have a Live stick with Linux Mint and there he would like to
start up. I can do without problems on the 2 partitions of the hard
disk look, it all looks healthy.

Any idea what I can still do?

Plug in another keyboard.


But in Linux Mint it works perfectly? Is it not
possible the Hard Drive is corrupt?

I was given a Dell Insperon that would not boot to the desktop.
Turned out to be a faulty keyboard.
I had to disconnect the inbuilt keyboard to use a USB keyboard.


Did it boot to the BIOS?

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On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:51:28 +0200, BugHunter
wrote:

Lucifer schreef op Vr 24 Jul 2020 om 13:21:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:25:38 +0200, BugHunter
wrote:

Corvid schreef op Zo 19 Jul 2020 om 12:15:
On 07/19/2020 11:46 AM, BugHunter wrote:
I have a 5 year old Laptop Asus A540S here and when I start it it
goes straight to the BIOS.

Linightz figured out his keyboard was causing the same problem.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?40888-Automatically-go-into-BIOS-every-time-start-up

Autoimmune disorder - your laptop is rejecting its own keyboard.

Now I have a Live stick with Linux Mint and there he would like to
start up. I can do without problems on the 2 partitions of the hard
disk look, it all looks healthy.

Any idea what I can still do?

Plug in another keyboard.


But in Linux Mint it works perfectly? Is it not
possible the Hard Drive is corrupt?

I was given a Dell Insperon that would not boot to the desktop.
Turned out to be a faulty keyboard.
I had to disconnect the inbuilt keyboard to use a USB keyboard.


Did it boot to the BIOS?

No.