Re: [PLUG] BIOS settings changing without user input on new laptop

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

This laptop doesn't have an optical drive but I installed Mint to a USB 
stick, set BIOS to default to booting from USB, and gave it a shot. 
Mint booted normally, but when I shut down and booted again, I got the 
same blinking cursor.  Going into BIOS revealed that the configuration 
had reverted to diskette in first position, HD in second and USB in 
third--exactly the same as when I boot from the SSD.

So, it's not the OS doing this.  I did run the diagnostic utility that 
Dell provides, and it returned no errors.  Is the CMOS battery the next 
thing to try here, then?  It's odd to me that SOME things are reverting 
to a particular setting, (like the legacy boot order, and Fast Boot 
enabled), but other things (like legacy boot instead of UEFI) remain 
changed.  Does that sound possible if the battery is bad?

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Greg Helledy
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