Changed BIOS now will not boot windows 7 Ultimate

What settings did you change? What model laptop is this? Can you get back into the BIOS?

HI,

Yes, its a Philips 15NB57 series. I am not 100% sure what changes I made. The system is in Polish and I only have around 6 months of living in Poland and technical words I havent even started to learn yet. I thought I was following advice from a forum (which I now cannot find) But since I changed them, I re booted. the laptop starts, fans working ect and the philips screen shows. But it sticks on the philips screen for around 10 minutes. Nothing can change anything. No F keys work. Then after ten minutes it comes to a black screen with this message

1.Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer.
2.Choose your language settings, and then click "Next".
3.Click "Repair your computer."

If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

Status: 0xc000000f

There is then the options "enter to continue" and "escape to quit" and when I press enter it starts the whole process again. Even with a windows disk it changes nothing and with a windows recovery disk changes nothing. It just loops around again with the same things.

You have to go back into the bios and set it to defaults.

But thats the whole point. I cannot open the BIOS :) Nothing works to enter the BIOS and it also does not boot.

At this point, I would smash it.

pawelku said:

But thats the whole point. I cannot open the BIOS :) Nothing works to enter the BIOS and it also does not boot.

That is what confuses me. No matter what, you should be able to get into the BIOS and change it unless you enabled password protection.


You may still be able to reset it by killing the CMOS battery. I don't know how to remove it for that model, but if you disconnect the main battery and AC power and hold the power button for 30 seconds, that may do it.

Why would you expect to Win7 to start up after you wiped or partially wiped your HD? There's no point in repairing a wiped OS.

You'll need to How To Clear CMOS (Reset BIOS) using one of the methods to remove the battery or use the jumpers if you can't enter BIOS setup.

Then you should Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 the licensed OS which came with the PC.

Hi
I agree with gregrocker, the only way out of this is to reset the CMOS. On desktops this is nearly always accomplished by removing the battery and shifting a jumper to the reset position for maybe 10 seconds or longer, then reversing the procedure. I don't know how to acheive this on your model of laptop, and this is where you are going to have to do some research.
Good luck!!