TECHNOLOGYTHE REGISTER
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken
A university IT technician named Jackson encountered a PC that rebooted and played a Chinese voice message during a Power-On Self-Test (POST). The issue stemmed from a 'talking error BIOS' feature on the motherboard, which defaulted to Chinese after a dead CMOS battery reset settings. Jackson resolved it by changing the BIOS language to English, revealing the error was related to a missing floppy drive.
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