BIOS has changed without my consent

[feri]

okay I have found that I have onboard sound and this is why I have a problem with the multimedia audio controller. Now I have disabled this long time ago in my BIOS as I have an external USB sound card. When I boot I get the ASUS Logo screen. So something has changed my BIOS as I had a look at some of the settings. There have been quite a few things that have changed. What could do this????? I know I don’t have a virus....could a installed program alter the BIOS? I don’t think so, not as far as I am aware??
Maybe, I am wrong....?

 

[BadBigBen]

Hi Feri,

when things change in CMOS they can be narrowed down to the following:

1.) Virus
2.) Trojans
3.) Bad Battery
4.) User (includes friends who come over to play around!)
or
5.) Static Electricity

I'm sure there are a couple of other things that might change CMOS settings... but I can't think of them at the moment...

Ben

 

[feri]

thanx Ben. the other thing i noticed was while in the bios i move to the boot options and there is only two boot devices and nothing ells until the rest appears after about a four second delay. In other words when tab across to boot there will be a two four delay for the rest of the page to show.
I have last seasons Asus A7VX8 mo-board. surely the lithium battery is not dying on me already?

 

[BadBigBen]

I'm going out on a limb on this one...

there might be a possibility that your PSU has problems or is about to go out on you...

is there anyway that you could change CPU and test that aspect... sounds a bit strange to me that in BIOS you would have a delay of anysort!

try also another stick of ram (a bad stick had my system lock up after 5 min into poweron even within the BIOS!)...

BEN

PS - mostlikely your right about the battery, but stranger things have happened before...

 

[price351]

The boot order delay is normal, always takes a few sec's if you go through the menu's quick I'd guess a low batt