Aorus X7 BIOS help!

[beatzboi 10+ year member]

Im not sure if there are many, or any computer savvy, or tech type people on the forum but Ill give it a shot

I purchased this Aorus X7 gaming laptop almost a year ago, everything has been fine. About a month ago, my windows crashed, when I rebooted Im recieving an error referring to the boot manager, error 0xc000000f (not looking at computer, code may not be totally correct).

When I try to go into bios to change boot order so I can repair windows, or do a fresh install. It ask for a password. Never asked for a password before, nor have I set one. I actually was in the bios in Jan, no password was asked for.

After much research, Im thinking the bios chip is corrupted and needs to be replaced. Hopefully not, since it appears its not easy, and no one in my area can handle it for a reasonable price.

If there are any suggestions, I would gladly try them out.

**Also this Aorus X7 is made by Gigabyte, which has a dual bios setup, password is saved to eeprom. removing the rtc battery does nothing, tried it already.

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[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

As long as USB or PXE booting is enabled you shouldnt need to change the boot order. Typically F9 is what you press during POST to get to a boot selection menu.

 

[beatzboi 10+ year member]

Im not sure if those are enabled or not but if they were, how would I make it boot from usb? It just gives me the error screen even with usb, I've tried herons boot cd, and I believe a windows essential recovery boot usb, nothing happened.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Once Hirens BootCD is downloaded grab a small utility called Rufus and burn the ISO to USB. That should make it bootable.

 

[beatzboi 10+ year member]

Used Rufus to bring iso to us last week. No luck. I'll have to try again just to be sure. Any other side suggestions?

 

[beatzboi 10+ year member]

@whitedragon551 what would be the best place to sell this? I've tried everything, Aorus/Gigabyte says it will have to be rma'd. And due to me purchasing 2nd hand, without proof of purchase/invoice from whatever store it was purchased they will not fix. So Im gonna cut my losses here and hopefully I can get something back, maybe ever break even. It really was a great, and most expensive laptop I've had to date, up until this issue.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Where are you located?

 

[beatzboi 10+ year member]

@whitedragon551
Jackson, Ms.
actually Byram, Ms. Jackson is the closest big city tho

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

[quote name='beatzboi']@whitedragon551
Jackson, Ms.
actually Byram, Ms. Jackson is the closest big city tho[/QUOTE]

My old laptop is up for sale on the classifieds here and craigslist

Another option is Facebook Market place.

If you want to keep it and pay shipping 2 ways, you can send it to me and I can see if I can get into it.