Hello all,<\/p>\n
I have a Dell XPS 420 that I have thousand of family pics and videos on that I haven’t backed up in while. (I know how bad that is!) Anyway, my wife said she saw a screen that was blue and looked like something was scanning or cleaning and then later the screen went black and said “Alert: System Battery is low.”<\/p>\n
I came home to this and googled it and following a video… replaced the 3v lithium battery on the motherboard. Then when I restarted it, it booted normal without the warning and then went to the screen where I have to choose Windows Vista or XP. (I had someone partition my hard drive so I could use some expensive old programs in 32 bit xp when I got a 64 bit vista) When I select either windows operating system it starts to load windows and then flashes blue for 1\/10 of a second, goes black and then starts back over again with a reboot.<\/p>\n
I videotaped it doing this and checked the video in slow motion and found the blue screen that flashes says to run chkdsk\/f.<\/p>\n
After more research on this great site I found that I might have BIOS trouble due to the battery change. I have never done anything in BIOS but I gave it a shot and reset the date and time.<\/p>\n
It still doesn’t work. I am assuming that my partitioned drive with 2 operating systems is the problem and I need to set that back up in BIOS??? Any idea what I can do next? I hope it isn’t a hard drive failure. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":10},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}