Computer Learning

[lostcowboy]

Display Problems. Thought I would post about my sisters computer problem, and what I did to solve it. My sister called me the other day asking if I could look at her computer. The symptoms were the computer sounded like it was booting up normally but no display. As we live in trailers right next to each other, I brought her computer to my house to try with my monitor. Had the same symptoms. I opened up the case and sure enough her graphic display is built into the motherboard, I was thinking that if the graphics were bad I could give her a card I had that was just sitting around, but how to set it up in the bios. Then it struck me I had seen this before. So I reached in and shorted the CMOS memory with the shorting pin. Turned the computer back on and had a display. It happened that on my computer me and my half brother were looking at the shared memory on my computer, and he set it to zero in the bios, and I had to short the CMOS memory to get the display back. Now my sister would never go into the bios, which leaves the question how did it get changed? Maybe a new virus is out and about.