This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken (opens original article in a new tab)

A university IT team encountered a PC that spoke in Chinese during startup, which was resolved by changing the BIOS language setting. The issue arose from a dead CMOS battery resetting BIOS settings.

• PC's BIOS spoke in Chinese due to default language setting
• Dead CMOS battery caused BIOS to revert to factory settings
• Changing BIOS language to English resolved the issue