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No need to apologize, I appreciate your help...
I've been contemplating some short issue that may change some of the CMOS/BIOS bits that triggers running the setup. My thinking was more around the motherboard than the power strip, but I'll try couple of things:
- Shut off the power supply switch, once the PC is shutdown
- Change the power strip
- Change the outlet where the power strip connected to
There had been no changes made to either the outlet or the power strip for almost two years, the life of PC so far. And you might be right, power strips do go bad with time and so do outlets.
It's still hard to understand how it can impact the CMOS/BIOS settings? Windows shutdown kills the power and then I flip the switch to the power strip. As such, even if there's some search resulting in flipping the switch on the power strip, it should not impact the PC since the power supply is off by that time.
The power supply could have some problem when the system shuts it off, but I sort of doubt that. When the power strip is shut off for 10-15 minutes only, the PC boots just fine. It's the longer term, an hour or more, when the machine stops at BIOS setup.
Despite the stop at setup, all previous CMOS/BIOS settings are unchanged. That different from the original issue, where some of the CMOS/BIOS settings were lost. The change is probably due to flushing the BIOS couple of days ego.
Did I mention that I hate to learn about BIOS issues? Especially my own...