Filesystem corruption (was: wiped disk - no longer bootable)

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 13:56, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>
> I don't have to skill to do that. The battery has been replaced in the
> computer shop, where I brought the machine.  I don't know where to look for
> the battery, or what pins to shortcut...

You are being very inconsistent here.

On the one hand you are insisting that you want an exceedingly complex
disk configuration that is scaring me, as a jadad professional of over
30 years' experience.

Then the next minute you can't change a battery?

*Really*?

> What does "option via usb" mean? The mobo downloading the upgrade from an USB
> stick?

Yes, exactly that.

But this is one reason I am suggesting dual-booting with Windows.

> I also don't know the mobo vendor. There is printed "ASUS M5A7BLLE", or
> something like this, on it. It's hard to read. Is that the vendor and model
> number?

ASUS is the make.

The rest is the model.

Did you try putting it into Google?

If you did you would have found that it seems to be a typo.

I think you meant

M5A78L LE

It's here:

https://www.asus.com/us/supportonly/M5A78L%20LE/HelpDesk/

Check your BIOS version, since you have not told us. See what they
have for download. If it's newer, update it.

> I don't have Windows, never had.

May be worth it.

> But could it really be the BIOS, being defective?

Yes.
BIOSes are software. Software has bugs.

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