Just after possibilities at present as I can't do anything about it tonight.

Earlier today my children had been on CBeebies or similar and when I asked them to come off they did. Five or so minutes later I went to use the PC and it appeared to have hung.

Now, I have a mini KVM switch and at first I thought it had just been put on the wrong channel. However I couldn't change the channel and this is indicative of no power. So on checking my PC (it's very quiet usually) I noticed no power.

So I turned it on and I got a breif flash of red words on teh screen to teh effect of:

"do not power off whilst bios is updated"

it then rebooted and now it is just sat on the motherboard logo.

I have tried powering down and re-booting several times and always the same - it does the RAM check and then stops at the logo.

Tomorrow my first plan of attack is to reset the bios via the jumper to defaults - BUT of this doesn't work does anyone else have any suggestions please?

Darn, I was going with the BIOS reset..it's gotta be your best option at the moment.

Cool - nearly home time now so after a short sleep I shall see what happens.

That is what scares me...Not good to turn off pc during a BIOS update..Could potentially make your motherboard a doorstop..

What type of mobo do you have?
I would try the jumpers and taking out the CMOS battery as well..Hopeully you can clear the ROM on the mobo..

Sorry - first chance to get back.

In the end it would seem that a nights rest was ll my PC needed. I was perpared to strip it apart and reset the CMOS but thought 'let's try a power up first' and it worked fine and has done since.

@merlin - fortunately I didn't power off during the update, I was just (and still am) wondering why it should come up at all without me having instigated it!

Still
, another one to add to my list of 1001 things that I didn't have to fix on my PC.

Glad you got it all sorted out etoad...Thanks for coming back and letting us know as well..

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