re: I upgraded my BIOS and now windows 2000 keeps messing up the settings...
Monday, September 22, 2003 at 7:04 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James Oakey
(188 messages posted)
Sounds like you have a virus in W2K. Get a virus scanner and check your system.
On Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 8:34 pm, Marcel wrote:
>I have a question about What
>do I do if my BIOS is causing a problem with Windows?:
>I have recently upgraded my BIOS to the latest version, and the settings keep getting
>messed up.
>
>I have a dualboot system, using both Redhat Linux and Windows 2000. Now, if I use
>Linux, I can restart or shutdown my machine as often as I want and there are no
problems.
>
>However, whenever I boot into windows 2000 and restart or shutdown my machine the
>BIOS settings get mucked up, and reset themselves to the default settings.
>(Windows 2000 also takes a loooong to shutdown)
>
>The motherboard is a Gigabyte 2000bx btw, using the latest bios available from their
>website (version F9 i think)
>
>Now I can't just 'downgrade' my BIOS to an older version because then windows 2000
>won't recognize my (Microsoft!) keyboard anymore (not even in safe mode) The keyboard
>works fine in Linux, regardless of which BIOS version I use :o
>
>I'm pretty sure it's not the CMOS battery because I only have this problem when
I
>use windows. At the moment I'm just reentering the settings everytime I've used
windows...but
>this is getting VERY annyoing.
>
>Is there any way to stop Windows 2000 from messing up my BIOS?
>(Preferably without having to reinstall windows 2000 ;)
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