Laptop BIOS video system Shadowed

pliang

My brother has an issue with his laptop...

Apparently when he tried to start it up today...the laptop locked up after displaying this message

Video BIOS shadowed.

I tried going into boot by hitting ESC but I got nothing as the screen just freezes..nor hitting F2.

Also before this stuff happened...a few days ago the comp would make weird buzzing sound and some beeping noises when operating. But it doesn't lag in between or go to BSOD.

Has anyone encountered similar issues before ???

PolyHertz

If it says that it's shadowed your videos bios (iow copied the rom data from the gpu to system ram) and then locks up it could either be a ram, gpu, or bios issue. try pulling the ram chip/s and see if you get any results. If you have more then one try pulling them individualy and/or swapping them bettween dimm sockets. If you still can't get anything you probably have a serious problem that won't be simple to fix.

pliang

I personally never have really tried pulling components of an OS and I am sure it is more serious than that...I just found out that the fan (Located below the laptop) has stopped working.

Apparently he tends to have the notebook sit directly on a tabletop and just run it like that so prolly the system has overheated as well.

I'm gonna have him call pur technician today and see about that.

My brother is also on his last year of warranty for the laptop so if its way too big of a hassle we're prolly gonna just get a new one...