are you missing cmos jumper?

Havent made the time to do that yet

Have other priorities now :/

Strangely the pc started up twice without me needing to reset the cmos



Mmm not sure if my pc had a jumper but wouldnt that only serve as another method to disconnect the battery and reconnect it?

The CMOS jumper is a 2 pin jumper for a 3 pin connection. If it's on pins one and two the BIOS operates normally. If it's on pins 2 and 3 however, then it will KEEP resetting the BIOS, which could generate the effects you are seeing.
Unless you moved it yourself though, that's probably not the cause.

Thats not what im seeing, unless I manually take out the battery

I read on google the jumper is just a way to reset bios vs manually taking out the battery (which is what im doing)

So I dont think my pc even has a jumper



E/ Will be home in 8 more hours to try what King Atrhur is suggesting

This post was edited by Ramy on Aug 31 2018 08:58am

That's what you get for buying hp trash.

HP = heaping pile.

This post was edited by Bako661 on Aug 31 2018 11:43am

Its lasted for several years... 8+... so I think it's done a pretty good job since only the harddrive seems to be messing up

What would you recommend?

This post was edited by Ramy on Aug 31 2018 06:14pm

what your experiencing is not hard drive related.