system bios shadowed?

I'm getting "System BIOS Shadowed” & “Video BIOS Shadowed” error.

Possible reasons: This has started since when I cleaned my laptop with vacuum cleaner / less than half glass of water fall over on the top of laptop benzal from me (not on keyboard/ not on display)/ I slapped thrice on laptop because CD got stuck inside the tray and didn’t come out.

Problems:

Now every time I start laptop I get BIOS Shadowed error and ask for F1 & F2 options to proceed.

Also, time on system gets reset to year 2009.

Less applications starts during boot or application’s icons get hidden.

System info:

Dell Studio 1558 Laptop

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Processor: Intel i5 – M 450 @ 2.40 GHz

Hard drive: 500 GB

RAM: 4GB

Please assist.

If your system will not keep the time and is giving your BIOS messages when you start up, it sounds like you need to replace the CMOS battery in your laptop.

If you look on or about page 10 of you service manual, it show you how to do that and your service manual is here:

ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_studio_laptop/studio-1558_service%20manual_en-us.pdf

You should do that first, then work on any other problems and if you are running Windows 7, you should start by posting a new message in the Windows 7 forums (this is the XP forum).

The Windows 7 forums are here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7

To deal with getting the files:

You can take the hard drive(s) out of the computer and attach them to a working computer by-

attaching using appropriate connectors on the motherboard of the other computer. (Power plus PATA or SATA)

putting the drive in an appropriate external enclosure and attaching be USB or firewire or network (depends on the enclosure)

Putting the drive in a dock

http://www.mysterybyte.com/part/14744/

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The problem can probably be fixed; however, the cost is unknown pending investigation. For example, you could try recovering what you can of your files, wipe the drive and install the operating system. Time consuming, doable but premature at this point.

When the screen is blue, is there any information displayed on the screen? If so, please post as much as you can of the exact wording.

Tom Ferguson

The computer is a Fujitsu from siemens. I think it was from 2007 , it has Microsoft@ Windows@XP. I'm not sure about the virus program but i think it is AVG the free version. And its stuck on a loop, it's about to start but then a blue screen flashes and its back to the menu. I hope that was enough information.

Sounds like you need to first provide more information, then get your system to show you the error.  Here's how:

Since the Microsoft Answers forum does not prompt for any kind of system information when a new question is asked so we know absolutely nothing about your system.  Not knowing fundamental information about a problem prolongs the frustration and agony of resolving these issues.

Thank you MS Answers, for making the resolution of simple problems as frustrating and time consuming as possible.

Please provide additional information about your system as best you can:

What is your system make and model?

What is your XP Version and Service Pack?

Does your system have IDE or SATA drives?

Describe your current antivirus and anti malware situation:  McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc.

Was the issue preceded by a power interruption, aborted restart, or improper shutdown?  (this includes plug pulling, power buttons, removing the battery, etc.)

Does the afflicted system have a working CD/DVD drive (internal or external)?

Do you have a genuine bootable XP installation CD (this is not the same as any Recovery CDs that came with your system)?

If the system used to work properly, what do you think might have changed since the last time it did work properly?

If there is a problem booting, XP is configured to automatically try to boot again and you can get stuck in a loop of just being unable to get past the boot options screen or none of the boot options you choose will work.

Sometimes when XP has a problem starting or crashes and tries to start again, it will give you a "short" menu of boot options and none of them will seem to be the right ones to get your system going again.  You've tried them all!

The options resemble the XP Advanced Boot Options menu, but the one option you need (Disable automatic restart on system failure) is not offered because XP has gone too far along in the boot process and offers you a limited number of boot options.

If that is the case, you must invoke the Advanced Boot Options menu yourself until you do see the option:

Disable automatic restart on system failure

When you do get to the correct XP Advanced Options Boot menu you want to see, it has options on it like these:

Safe Mode

Safe Mode with Networking

Safe Mode with Command Prompt

Enable Boot Logging

Enable VGA mode

Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)

Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows domain controllers only)

Debugging Mode

Disable automatic restart on system failure

Start Windows Normally

Reboot

Return to OS Choices Menu

What you need to choose from that menu is the option:

Disable automatic restart on system failure

Then if XP fails to boot normally, you will see an error screen with information and clues regarding the problem and then you can decide what to do next.

If you do not see the Disable automatic restart on system failure option, you need to reset your system and start tapping the F8 key on the keyboard until you do see the Disable automatic restart on system failure option. 

If you miss the F8 window of opportunity, you need to try again and start tapping the F8 key with more urgency (sooner and more frequently) until you do see Disable automatic restart on system failure, then select it.

You need to keep trying the F8 menu until you do see Disable automatic restart on system failure option, and select it.

If your system is experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), we need to know what the screen says:

Here is a BSOD example showing information you need to provide:

http://techrepublic.com.com/i/tr/downloads/images/bsod_a.jpg

Send the information pointed to with the red arrows (3-4 lines total).  

Send the entire *** STOP message line since there are clues in the 4 parameters.

If it looks like there is some kind of file name listed under the STOP message, send that line too.

Skip the boring text unless it looks important to you.  We know what a BSOD looks like, we need to know what your BSOD looks like.

Respond to the queries and report back the results from the Disable automatic restart on system failure screen and you can decide what to do next.