Strange power issue

flibbage0 · 19 Mar 2023 at 19:45

I have recently had some issues regarding switching on my PC, when I press the power button it doesn't switch on straight away, it takes 3 seconds (usually it's instant), it then boots into American Megatrends screen and says "Please enter setup to recover BIOS setting"

I go into the BIOS, I've tried changing the boot order but that makes no difference. What is weird is that if I just press exit and make zero changes it continues to load Windows like normal :confused:

More recently I have just noticed my PC no longer wants to go into sleep mode also the fan seems to be kicking in a lot more and is generally louder.

Could it be the CMOS battery on the motherboard? (computer is 6 years old)

Tetras · 19 Mar 2023 at 19:58

flibbage0 said:
Could it be the CMOS battery on the motherboard? (computer is 6 years old)

Yeah, worth a try.

flibbage0 · 23 Mar 2023 at 20:09

Tetras said:
Yeah, worth a try.

I tried another CMOS battery, still the same issue.

One thing I have noticed is that when it loads the American Megatrends screen it states:

"Detected ATA/ATAPI devices...
M.2: Lenovo SSD M.2 256G"

"Please enter setup to recover BIOS setting"

I have tried to change the boot order but it still keeps doing it, is my SSD on it's way out?

Plec · 24 Mar 2023 at 19:12

If resetting CMOS/battery change hasn't helped, I would try reseating the M.2 drive.

Is the system clocked? If it is I would reset to defaults, too. (I would do this before reseating M.2 drive for ease).