PC Won't Boot Past BIOS after Factory Reset

TheUnum

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Everything was working fine until I tried factory resetting my PC and now I can't get past the BIOS
Here Is a video I've uploaded below and would love if anyone could help me.


[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKSpt3950g0"][/video]
 
Solution
You only did half the job.

You say you did a CMOS Reset. By that I presume you mean:
1. Shut down, open case, remove the battery.
2. Move the Reset jumper to the Reset pin pair for at least 15 seconds, then replace it in "normal run" position.
3. Replace the battery.
4. Close case and power up.

Now, you should also have done these steps.
5. Boot into BIOS Setup immediately.
6. Go to one of the last pages and look for where you can Load Factory Default settings, or even better, Load Optimized Settings. Do that. This loads a complete set of settings reliably into the wiped CMOS.
7. Now go though BIOS Setup and re-set any customized settings you had before. I hope you had a record of those before you started! Do you have UEFI Support...


I checked and the first thing in boot priority is windows boot manager.

 
You only did half the job.

You say you did a CMOS Reset. By that I presume you mean:
1. Shut down, open case, remove the battery.
2. Move the Reset jumper to the Reset pin pair for at least 15 seconds, then replace it in "normal run" position.
3. Replace the battery.
4. Close case and power up.

Now, you should also have done these steps.
5. Boot into BIOS Setup immediately.
6. Go to one of the last pages and look for where you can Load Factory Default settings, or even better, Load Optimized Settings. Do that. This loads a complete set of settings reliably into the wiped CMOS.
7. Now go though BIOS Setup and re-set any customized settings you had before. I hope you had a record of those before you started! Do you have UEFI Support? Was it Enabled, and if yes, have you re-Enabled it?
8. Now go to where you set the Boot Priority. In many current systems these are in two "layers". The first is setting a device type, like "Optical Drive", "Hard Drive", "USB Flash Drive", etc. Then within each class you must specify the particular unit you mean; for example, if you have an SSD and two HDD units, you need to go into the details of the "Hard Drive" choice and set exactly which it should use. Many people would choose to set their main optical drive as the first boot device, and then the correct HDD or SSD that actually contains the OS installed on it, and probably no other device. You need to set yours as you see fit.
9. When all changes have been made, remember to SAVE and EXIT to make those permanent.
 
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