Video BIOS shadowed disable - Dell Vostro 1510 Laptop

Was a good thing on old pcs. Not necessary on newer pcs to shadow bios or video. You may find increase in performance if you disable these in the BIOS settings.

It is usually recomended that shadowing is disabled in the BIOs, so go to the setup Bios menu and select the default settings, press F10 and return.
Re boot and that should be that.

The problem is your Video shadowing. Go to BIOS settings and disable BIOS VIDEO SHADOWING.

-BIOS shadowing is a feature of the system's BIOS. You can only enable or disable it from the BIOS setup screen.
-BIOS shadowing kinda like creates a copy of the BIOS to the system RAM for faster performance coz the RAM works faster than the BIOS ROM.

Please download and Run the BIOS update utility for resolve this issue. You can download it from the link below.
Download

If the problem still persist, reboot the Computer and keep tapping the F2 key when VAIO logo appears on the screen to enter BIOS mode. You can manually disable the function System and BIOS Shadowing. This will resolve the issue.
Good luck..:)

At the Boot-up or while the cursor is at the top right corner of the screen (when you start your PC), press the F1 or F10 key (It's different for different motherboards for some it's Del)..disable system and video BIOS shadowing in the option.
Shadowing of BIOS just copies the BIOS code from ROM
to RAM during bootup for faster accessing...
You might want to try calling Compaq Customer Care for more help.I hope it helped.

If you are using an AGP or PCI graphic card try disabling the on board video adapter from BIOS.

Ensure that you have the latest drivers for this video card installed.

If the video adapter is using shared memory, then you may have a faulty RAM module.

Reinstall Direct X and any graphic acceleration software.

Go to BIOS and disable memory caching and shadowing options, this usually does not solve the problem, but you never know.

Contact video card or Motherboard manufacturer, there may be an issue between video adapter and your motherboard, or the specific software that you are using. In that case manufacturer may require to download a patch.

You can do this in your BIOS settings. When you reboot the computer, look for a message that states what key on the keyboard to press to enter BIOS settings. Usually DELETE key, F1 or F2 key. Look for advance settings tab in BIOS menu. You will see it under there.

Hi there
If you go into the bios, you can disable/enable bios shadowing from there.

Good luck and thanks for using Fixya!!

try pressing F2 and DEL key rapidly after switch on until you get a BIOS or password request