Hi,

I recently had a fully working PC running xp pro. The other day, I switched on my PC and the boot screen appeared for over 2mins WHEREAS prior to this, it only flashed for 2 seconds whilst counting RAM and displaying spec of computer.

The words LIVE UPDATE 2 appear on the top right corner of the screen which did not appear prior to this. After about 2 mins wait, a black screen appears and NOTHING happens. No CPU flashing at all. I stuck the XP install disk in and formatted PC and installed XP pro again. Everything worked fine until i restarted the pc and the same thing occured!!!

Anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this...?

Kind REGARDS,

MontyPossibly a corrupt hard drive, but I would not act on this wait until another member can confirm I assume you have an MSI motherboard, if so it seems to have stuck in a "LiveUpdate" which is a method they use to update the BIOS, this could be a faulty or damaged motherboard BIOS Chip which has been damaged by an interrupted update, but it is confusing that you were able to reformat and reinstall windows.
if the computer/motherboard is around four years old the battery could be on the way out. which would cause a reset of the BIOS back to the original date of production.
Thanks,

I will buy a bios battery, are all batteries the same dimensions for an msi motherboard? The computer is just over 4 years old. I am confused too that it let me reformat and create a clean install.

I will try a new motherboard battery and hopefully it will solve the problem.

Monty :-)

Part # CR 2032 available at any Computer shop and or Wally World.
There is a small spring loaded hold down so be careful both removing and re-installing the new one...