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| General Software - [Fixed] Screen while booting up? posted in the Software forums; I just biult my pc about 3 weeks ago and there has been this screen every thim i boot up ever since, i was wondering what im suposed to do, ... |
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[Fixed] Screen while booting up?
I just biult my pc about 3 weeks ago and there has been this screen every thim i boot up ever since, i was wondering what im suposed to do, like chang a setting or somthing. I alwas just hit F1, im shure i was suposed to go change somthing i just dont knoe what.
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you can hit f1; do you have a floppy in this rig?
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No, But I have one i could put in if needed. I just dont like having to see this screen every time.
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you could probably go into bios and disable the floppy drive, and that may fix it, depending on the bios and the age of the machine.
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PCHF Prework / PCHF Rules / AVG / ATF / Housecall / NTRegOpt /Everest / PCHF Protect Your PC / PCHF Postwork M.C.S.A.M.C.P - MS Server 2k3, Network Architecture "Ask Bill why the string in function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that." - Gary Kildall
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 Hey Guys,Not my area of expertise, but what choices do you get when you go into the Post boot sequence, and System Configuration? Looking forward to your reply, TTFN LGW
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Hay i went and disabaled the Ploppy drive and now it gos straght to the XP boot up screen. I keep herering things about Post boot and id like to know more about it just so i know what it means when somone says it. Im realy good with software within the os. But im just starting to try and figur out all this Bios / boot up stuf.
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POST is a hardware testing process, read more about it here:
Power-on self-test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marked as Fixed. |
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