Boot Issues on Akoya A10

[Alondonboy]

Got an Old Akoya A10 PC P4020D, not used much over the years and have wiped and reinstalled a few times. Recently I've had a problem where when booting it would either take ages or just go to a small cursor top left, F8, select drive and it booted fine.

Last week it failed completely. Select drive as as it tries to boot uou get a quick windows logo then bluescreen. Tried repairs and scans and just can't get it to start. No restore points for some reason so took drive out and reinstalled Windows with another drive.

Got finished last night, everything installed as I want and made restore point. Went to boot this morning and it's doing the same as before, just going to cursor. restarted with F8, select drive and fine. This makes me think it must be the machine, thinking BIOS. Am I right or could it be something else?

BIOS is probably original as dated 11/03/2010 so I'm guessing there's an update. Could somebody direct me please?

BIOS says 'American Megatrends Inc. A7621MLN.208' if that helps.

TIA

[Mallia]

@Alondonboy 

Kindly provide the MSN of the product. The MSN is located on a label stuck to the product.

[daddle]

@Alondonboy 

You can check and find your PC-Model and its MSN here

--> https://www.medion.com/de/service/topic/medion-products?msnCheck=%20P4020D

Those were most All In one PCs with Win 7 and a Legacy Bios.

Did you Upgrade during time passing by to Win 8.1  or  Win 10 ?

Or it is still Win 7?  

Cheers, daddle

[Alondonboy]

MSN 10013778

[Alondonboy]

Still running Win7 from the original discs although recently wiped and reinstalled. Also computer is really slow, is there any way to access and clean inside, like vents and fan?

[Fishtown]

Hello @Alondonboy  and welcome
I would first replace the bios battery then load the "Load Optimized Defaults" values ​​in the bios.

battery replacement see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Grt-CxNnLjs

(But please do not use metal objects to pry it out)

To disassemble the device for cleaning, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3TEezvPyEQ

You can also replace the battery then.

bye Fishtown