Start by taking 5 minutes (old Presario 2190US) + other BIOS problems

Hello

My son has his Compaq Presario 2190US more, and it has multiple problems ...

I think that there is a problem with the power connector.  I have it jiggle until I can get it to turn on.  I'll fix it eventually, but this isn't the reason for this post...

The problem is that when I get to turn it on, it takes about 5 minutes to access the initial screen of HP.

Then (for example), if I choose to go to the configuration, it displays "Enter Setup" and then takes about 2 minutes to get to the BIOS Setup.

In the configuration of the BIOS on the main screen, there are a number of fields (SERIES, UUID, etc) which have distorted characters.

So, I made a set defaults, then recorded and the computer restarted.

I configured a floppy disk bootable with BIOS flash and was able to boot to that, and he said that she flashed the BIOS with success.

However, even after you restart the system, when he started, he was again 5 minutes to get the HP logo page, and when I go into the BIOS (a new 2 minute more) configuration, is it still showing the characters scrambled for the same fields.

I was really hoping that the flash of the BIOS would have taken care of the garbled characters and especially, really slow boots, but he didn't, so I wonder what else could be the cause who and what to do about this?

FYI, I can get it to boot Windows XP, and it works very well under Windows.  Also in the BIOS, I ran the hard drive test, and that worked well.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Jim

Hello

Something strange, but wonderful !

OK, so I started to disassemble the laptop.

First thing was to remove the battery, right?

So I did it.

When I pulled the battery, I noticed that he felt "burned" (you know what I mean), so I try then turn on the machine, with only the adapter, but no battery.

Heck!

The thing IMMEDIATELY turned and got to the BIOS screen within seconds.

And when I went into the BIOS, the SERIES, the UUID, etc no longer appear as characters scrambled!

Restarted several times, because I thought as I imagined, but it starts with Windows XP now in less than a minute.

So, I guess that (1) the battery is bad and was at the origin of the BIOS maybe loop for 5 minutes, etc.

That's all.

Jim

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