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Originally Posted by Ron
Ahhhhhhhh, the computer froze & I rebooted the computer & now that's all it wants to do is reboot---continuously!
Yup, I probably have a virus in my BIOS! 
I dug out kids old Gateway computer, it's about 10 years old!
Viruses!!!!!  |
While there have been a few virus which can actually corrupt your BIOS, there are no virus which actively "live" there. Simply booting into the CMOS screen and resetting the BIOS to its factory defaults is one thing you can try.
After that, start hitting the F5 key when the computer boots up. The timing can be tricky but this should take you into Safe Mode. Choose Safe Mode by itself or "With Networking". Your window screen will pop up but it will be mostly black with larger icons since it did not load your normal graphics driver (or very few drivers period). Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware from this screen and do a FULL scan.