BIOS setting changed by themselves???

OK I am not smoking anything. My BIOS setting changed by themselves.

I got a NTLDR file missing error on boot. I went into my BIOS and the order for my boot disks changed. My wife used the computer to surf some very common sites, ( my daughter played on Noggin.com) and POOF. NEW BIOS SETTINGS!

Anyone have any idea how this happened?

I am back up and running now, but I had this happen once before and I would love to isolate this issue.

THANKS EVERYONE!
XIPO

OK I am not smoking anything. My BIOS setting changed by themselves.

I got a NTLDR file missing error on boot. I went into my BIOS and the order for my boot disks changed. My wife used the computer to surf some very common sites, ( my daughter played on Noggin.com) and POOF. NEW BIOS SETTINGS!

Anyone have any idea how this happened?

I am back up and running now, but I had this happen once before and I would love to isolate this issue.

THANKS EVERYONE!
XIPO

xipotec

Did you get a failed overclock message? If not it could be a bad flash. You might want to clear CMOS, flash bios, then clear CMOS again.

NO, I am not overclocking yet (not brave enough to try!)

Could this be a virus?

The real question to ask is how old is your motherboard? The reason why I ask this is because usually, the internal batteries on MB's are only good for 3 yrs but that depends on some usage factors. If your battery is hosed, whatever settings you apply to your bios, when you power down your computer and unplug it from the power strip, your settings arent going to stay. I'd try checking the internal battery first; and besides, they don't have viruses yet that can change bios settings yet.

The real question to ask is how old is your motherboard? The reason why I ask this is because usually, the internal batteries on MB's are only good for 3 yrs but that depends on some usage factors. If your battery is hosed, whatever settings you apply to your bios, when you power down your computer and unplug it from the power strip, your settings arent going to stay. I'd try checking the internal battery first; and besides, they don't have viruses yet that can change bios settings yet.

bulletwitch1

HMMM. Interesting theory, but its and EVGA 780i , not yet 6 months old. I reset the cmos by removing the battery and then realized the issue was the boot priority. Second time it has happened too. They have been about 2 months apart,( the problem) . Both times it presented itslef as a failed boot and the "NTDLR is missing" error.

Really strange right?

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The real question to ask is how old is your motherboard? The reason why I ask this is because usually, the internal batteries on MB's are only good for 3 yrs but that depends on some usage factors. If your battery is hosed, whatever settings you apply to your bios, when you power down your computer and unplug it from the power strip, your settings arent going to stay. I'd try checking the internal battery first; and besides, they don't have viruses yet that can change bios settings yet.

xipotec

HMMM. Interesting theory, but its and EVGA 780i , not yet 6 months old. I reset the cmos by removing the battery and then realized the issue was the boot priority. Second time it has happened too. They have been about 2 months apart,( the problem) . Both times it presented itslef as a failed boot and the "NTDLR is missing" error.

Really strange right?

There's you problem it's a 780i. I just had one die on me. Might want to try to flash your bios.

HAHA, I just got finished complementing EVGA on your other post!

You really think its the MOBO?

I'll flash it and see.

xipo

There are some windows based programs that can change bios, settings... I think Ntunes is one of them. That is if you have a Nvidia video card and have Ntunes installed.

Could be that one of your two girls (or maybe even yourself?) is playing with those Ntune settings and unknowingly are overclocking the PC too far.... and when you restart, the settings are so far out of bounds, that the boot fails; gives off a message of some sort, and then resets the bios to failsafe defaults on it's own. It's one possibility, anyway.... Although most times OC settings are too far off for it to reset itself and you are forced to reset the Cmos manually via that battery reset jumper.

You using a Partitioned Harddrive or multiple HDD's? You must be, if you are having boot sector problems like that. Probably wouldn't have a problem, if you reinstall windows on the drive it want's to defaults to, from the bios default settings... that way the boot sector location wouldn't matter, as much. But, I doubt you'll want to go thru, all that....

I have 3 drives , 250 (os) 750 (everything else), 500 external (backup). It's not a huge deal cuz i do not lose anything, I use acronis backup every week. It is just annoying to deal with. I got the system up and running by resetting the boot order and WALLA!, back in business. But everything else stays the same. Just the boot order is off, so it cannot boot the OS, (it gets stuck looking for NTDLR.

I have narrowed it down to the Suspend mode S3. Seems that this occurs when the computer is in suspend mode, not shutdown. I have checked and recheck the suspend properties and they seem correct, I understand that a power loss while in suspend mode could do this sort of thing. unfortunately I don;t believe wither time we had a loss of power.

How that used monkey food?