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Windows XP/2000 - [Answered] Start Up Problems!!! posted in the Operating Systems forums; Hi everyone, am not much of a computer whizz and hope someone can help with my problem. I have an EI Systems 4405 Laptop running Windows XP, CPU Intel Celeron ...

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Hi everyone, am not much of a computer whizz and hope someone can help with my problem.

I have an EI Systems 4405 Laptop running Windows XP, CPU Intel Celeron (R) 2.4ghz.

When trying to boot up it freezes on the 1st screen ie where it says American Megatrends, says F2 to run setup, when pressed it says entering SETUP but nothing else happens. Have tried F8 for Safe Mode, nothing. Took battery out, nothing. Tried inserting system recovery cd and restarting, nothing.

Can anyone help?
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welcome to PCHF Pellequelle,

So you are not getting passed the POST screen on your laptop? can you tell me what it is doing on that screen? is it running memory test? looking for hard drives? anything would be helpful!


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Her are what it says below the options to press F2 for Setup and F12 for BBS Popup.

Checking NVRAM..
248MB OK

Auto-Detecting Pri Master..IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting Sec Master..ATAPI CDROM
Auto-Detecting Sec Slave...Not Detected
Pri Master: FUJITSU MHT2030AT 009A
Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK
Sec Master: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324F U200
Ultra DMA Mode-2


Thats as far as it gets.
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thanks for the infomation

have you recently had any problem with this system? any new hardware added? try this if you can. do you have any removeable Cards on you laptop? such as a wireless network card or modem? if you do remove those then boot you system. let me know


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Hi Joey,

No there have been no hardware additions to the laptop and there are no removeable cards. Cant think of any problems with it before this happened except the occasional overheating and shutting down.
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when you say over heating and shutting down do you mean your CPU is overheating then shutting down?


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