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| Thread ID: 50848 | 2004-11-03 11:23:00 | BIOS faults | fairway (5932) | Press F1 |
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| 287545 | 2004-11-03 11:23:00 | I have just fixed 4 completely different computers over the last few days with similar problems. None would boot windows up. All were running 2kpro 2 got to the point of NTLDR fault on the "blue screen" ;-) Now the fix appeared to be to reset the BIOS to "factory defaults " and that has solved the problems. only one machine had electrical surge protection, 3 were running AVG antivirus (out of date!) one running Avast. But wait, 2 had tro gen virus infections and 2 were clean. Any ideas on what caused this? Oh yeah .. they all have kids . |
fairway (5932) | ||
| 287546 | 2004-11-03 11:27:00 | Also they were in 2 different suburbs of ALK but close. | fairway (5932) | ||
| 287547 | 2004-11-03 11:29:00 | Someone updated or stuffed the BIOS. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 287548 | 2004-11-03 19:32:00 | Can you be more specific re the NTLDR BSOD? There are lot's of NTLDR messages, but I would expect to get them just after POST, white on black, if the machine isn't booting in to windows. eg; NTLDR is missing, prees any key to continue. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 287549 | 2004-11-03 20:25:00 | Thats true Murray. I know the NTDLR is missing can mean you're trying to boot from a non bootable drive, and the BIOS boot option you've selected in the BIOS needs to be changed to a system hdd, or something that boots. This has happened to me on the odd occassion. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 287550 | 2004-11-03 20:54:00 | Before you reset the BIOS did you check that the hard drives were being recognised? | POTUS (5276) | ||
| 287551 | 2004-11-03 21:11:00 | That would return a System Disk not found erro, or some such, wouldn't it. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 287552 | 2004-11-03 21:20:00 | You would think so but no lol. On this thing, pressing F8, if u want to go to safe mode (I'm using XP), (Asus P4P800), the bloody thing also brings up a boot selection screen (just after POST, so u can select whatever disk to boot from ). It's pretty much the same as what the BIOS has, BUT these options are outside the BIOS. And if u select the wrong disk / one that isnt bootable from this screen it'll also bring up NTLDR is missing. Thats the only thing about the BIOS in this thing. To get into safe mode u either have to press F8 twice, (once so the disk boot options come up, then select the right disk, then press F8 again as soon as u can), or just hopefully press F8 at the right time, so u get the option to go into safe mode. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 287553 | 2004-11-04 01:49:00 | You're all pretty much right, it wasn't finding something (anything) to boot off which led me to the BIOS. I reset the boot order in bios, then pressed f7 (whatever) for "default optimal settings". All the machines booted after this and are still running. My issue is why the same fault on 4 different machines in the same day, all needing the same fix? Could this be a power spike? or software problem? ...act of god .. ? |
fairway (5932) | ||
| 287554 | 2004-11-04 01:53:00 | Act of kids? | Graham L (2) | ||
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