Bios Screen and auto mouse deletes everything!!!!

[Steerpike]

Well...evertime I turn on the computer it boots to the bios screen (after the intel desktop flashes by). If I just save and exit changes (I don't see any changes) it moves on to windows. If I just hit cancel it stays in bios. Once I get to windows the mouse automatically deletes everthing I click on. I will receive multiple boxes asking if I really want to delete a file or program. Very wierd stuff. I tried to access the safe mode but could not do it. It just continues to boot to the bios screen. I went to the msconfisys.exe and did a selective boot and the mouse thing seems to have gone away. But, I still can't get to the safe mode. The bios screen still coming up evertime I boot.
I have a windows xp, 2 gigs of ram and 3 gig processor.
Could be my mother board battery is dieing? Before this happened I installed a MS Intellepoint Wireless Mouse. I also ran an MS Malicouse Spyware Removal Scan. I also tried to install a Bob the Builder game for the kids...but that did not seem to have worked.

[hobbit709]

1. Try hooking up your old mouse again and see if it boots

[Steerpike]

2. That's the first thing I tried.

I also deleted the software for the wireless mouse. It stopped after I did the selective boot thing and stopped the mouse software from booting. But I still get the bios screen on reboot. I can get past it and into windows, but only if I save changes and exit.

[Duer 157099]

3. Try a system restore to just before the mouse install n/t

[Steerpike]

4. I tried the system restore

on two different restore points. Niether of the restore points worked. I wonder if the mouse software could corrupt the bios?

[Duer 157099]

5. Do you have a spare motherboard battery you could try?

Although you said if you alter the startup config, it starts ok, so not likely to be the battery.

Do you have a disk from any prior bios flashing? Maybe a re-do?

Oh, and do you have a floppy start up disk (you know the kind that is made during Win install and it asks you if you want to make a floppy start up disk? that one)

[Steerpike]

6. After I altered the start up (and deleted the new software)

the mouse seems to work ok. I'm at work now so I'll have to check it when I get home. I'm just worried that at startup the bios screen keeps popping up. The "Intel Desktop" keeps flashing by also, which it never did before.

And I am ashamed to admit I do not have a startup floppy....

[Duer 157099]

7. Here's what I would do:

1) pick up a spare mb battery, just because they are handy to have around for times like this for troubleshooting; same for some canned air for blowing dust out

2) while at work, if you can, find the latest bios update for your mb and make a floppy so you can flash the bios

3) go get a copy of Hijack This from Trend Micro and run it - it will tell you everything that your system is doing when it's starting up, a good diagnostic tool

[Steerpike]

8. Good advice!

I was thinking along those lines for my next move.