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Bios
[quote=hippie1975]
Hi Hippie1975, the Bios is commonly found by pressing "ESC" or "DEL" before the Windows is loaded - by the time you get to "safe option" that's too late. If you have the motherboard manual that will help. However, I suspect your problem is something to do with program interfern=ence - often these add-on can create odd effects. Viruses and the like, beware.
First thing is make back-ups of useful files, old letters, projects etc. (you will check they are valid copies? - silly me)
I wonder if a replacement mouse isn't called for? They are cheap enough and eliminates one item. Try an optical mouse - no ball-no jerking about with fluf. work even on plain white paper...Wow!
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A novel idea might be to buy another HDD and load everyting from scratch, that way you have your old HDD as a cheap-storage (along with CD file backups, etc), once you are satisfied the problem has gone.
It's a bit of a pain and you'll need your product keys / CD's and an hour to lose. ....reloading is a great pain but by keeping the old set-up you can check what you had before - noting settings etc. (I assume they still work OK, at least until the pc shuts down).
There are "outside" reasons for shutting down: is the PC too hot? - add another fan, [take the covers off - does the shutdown sequence (delay) increase?] It could be the PSU getting too hot and it shuts down, it could be the processor (ditto) or it could be a bad component connection - that's also worth checking; OMLY if you know what you are doing!
Switch Off, remove mains lead.
unplug each pc card and return it. Undo each ribbon cable, return it. These are a bit of a long-shot but worth doing if heat isn't the direct problem. We don't like the heat, neither does electronics particularly if the clock speed is high (greater losses-heat rises).
That's all folks.
Regards.
PS Treat any saved files as potential sources of a virus - When all is OK Format the old HDD and it loses any virus capability. They make good storage places for family pics and other large files prior to creating a CD as backup.
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