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…
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…
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…