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PC Stuck in Bios Screen, unless i restart again

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The energy power in my neighborhood, and i believed that harmed my computer and the only 2 thngs i can see that is not ok is: My MB VGA plug stopped working. (Tested my monitor on other computer and worked just fine) and when i start the computer, it keeps stuck in the screen below. To start my windows properly i press F1 to enter Bios and exit. Then the pc starts properly. (I'm using my TV as monitor GPU HDMI). Is there anything i can do or should i buy a new Motherboard?
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Remove the CR2032 battery and clear cmos by switching the cmos jumper on your motherboard ?
 
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To start my windows properly i press F1 to enter Bios and exit.
Are you just exiting? Or do you select "Save and Exit"? You should try Save and Exit.

You don't need to remove the battery and move the jumper. Either does the same thing - removes the "holding" voltage from CMOS chip, thus resets the BIOS. Make sure you do this with the computer unplugged from the wall and you touch bare metal of the case interior to discharge any static in your body BEFORE reaching in. If the computer is more than a couple years old, I would just replace the battery. You can get them at just about any battery/camera/watch counter at your local Wal-mart or home improvement store. Do NOT touch the new battery with your bare fingers as skin oils promote corrosion and attract dust.

Once the battery is replaced, do a good visual inspection of the case interior to make sure all cable connections are tight and secure, and there is no dust build up. Then connect power and boot directly into the BIOS Setup Menu again. Set the date and time and make sure your boot drive is first in the boot order. Then "Save and Exit" and hopefully it will boot properly.
 
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You may have to set the Discrete GPU as initial device in the BIOS for graphics, and ensure the Boot drive is the first in the list of drives, then save and exit.
It sounds like the boot partition isn't being read correctly and possibly may need a repair if previous steps don't help.
 

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Cut power to psu, check all drive connections to include data and power. Replace the motherboard bios battery, clear cmos jumper. Reboot, go in bios, load optimized defaults, save optimized defaults. If no change flash board bios with newer bios if possible.
 

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you probably just need a new battery for the motherboard, a CR2032 as mentioned=

What you're seeing is the system has errored for some reason and loaded safe defaults, and then on the next boot it loads the 'normal' settings
a flat CR2032 battery can definitely cause this, as well as entering and saving incompatible settings (for example, telling the PC to use the onboard VGA as primary video while monitor is connected to a dedicated GPU, bad RAM settings, etc etc)
 

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Loading defaults settings in bios maybe could help?
 
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Hello,

it says "Please enter setup to recover BIOS settings".

Go into BIOS then press F10 to save and exit. It should stop doing that afterwards.

If there's still an issue, change the CMOS battery (CR2032).

I'm pretty sure you'll be fine with that.
 
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you probably just need a new battery for the motherboard, a CR2032 as mentioned=

What you're seeing is the system has errored for some reason and loaded safe defaults, and then on the next boot it loads the 'normal' settings
a flat CR2032 battery can definitely cause this, as well as entering and saving incompatible settings (for example, telling the PC to use the onboard VGA as primary video while monitor is connected to a dedicated GPU, bad RAM settings, etc etc)

That's it. A problem with 4 months old, just fixed with a new CR2032. Ty :)
 
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