{"id":869,"date":"2016-04-15T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2016-04-15T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T21:50:43","slug":"unsuccessful-post-attempts-bios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/15\/unsuccessful-post-attempts-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsuccessful Post attempt(s) &#8211; BIOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe the hype. \u00a0Just as soon as you get an unofficial title of &#8220;expert&#8221; with your friends and family, they will throw you for a loop. \u00a0I was sitting at my desk when I received a phone call from a friend. \u00a0I should feel\u00a0proud that he values my opinions more than his IT department, but not this time.<\/p>\n<p>About a second later my inbox beeped and the following picture showed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bios-error.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-870\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-870 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bios-error.jpg\" alt=\"bios-error\" width=\"571\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bios-error.jpg 571w, https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bios-error-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in the middle of dealing with restful web development and couldn&#8217;t get my head around the error.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What does this mean?<\/p>\n<p>Me \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Difficult to say, what happened?<\/p>\n<p>Daniel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Me \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Did you install anything?<\/p>\n<p>Daniel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No, well, I don&#8217;t think so<\/p>\n<p>Me \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Did anything change?<\/p>\n<p>Daniel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We did speak a bit longer but I couldn&#8217;t get any sense of the situation and suggested he speak with IT.<\/p>\n<p>After work, did a bit more checking, there are a couple of possible reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect memory type for that computer<\/li>\n<li>Possible buggy version of BIOS (that was just installed)<\/li>\n<li>Some other hardware problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It could be any of these, but without more information it is not possible to get more specific. \u00a0If you were installing new hardware or adding more memory that might be a clue. \u00a0Another clue might be that your computer is having problems with the hardware that perviously either always existed (always left on) or never existed until after the boot (always off).<\/p>\n<p>My mentor suggested that perhaps it was a problem with the CMOS battery and some of the settings may have gotten lost.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is POST? 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