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| Thread ID: 39130 | 2003-10-28 09:47:00 | how do you remove branded bootup screen. | john r (782) | Press F1 |
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| 187294 | 2003-10-28 23:02:00 | It belongs to a work mate who worked in UK,he has had a lot of trouble with it in WinME so we reformatted it an loaded XP,its heaps better but it still has random blue screens on startup and at one stage would not boot till I did a repair of XP with the boot floppies. its a Tiny A440 which never came with XP but its not a bad cheapie laptop. Thanks all for your input, John. |
john r (782) | ||
| 187295 | 2003-10-29 00:46:00 | Tiny have a tie-in with Time Computers. Personal experience with Time Computers has not been enjoyable. Access to support is by subscription. Quality of hardware is reasonable. Access to motherboard drivers is difficult. Most items are onboard. Recommended course of action - replace the laptop since support from the UK will be difficult to gain and the time to repair will not justify the expense. Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool -- shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple -- teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep -- wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise -- follow him! - Lady Burton (wife of Sir Richard Francis Burton), given as an Arabian proverb |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 187296 | 2003-10-29 00:59:00 | Merlin: that Burton quotation wasn't very funny or useful the first time you included it; it doesn't improve with familiarity. He doesn't want to "fix" the computer --- he wants to remove, if possible, a splash screen. That's a "nuisance" (like Burton quotations), not something which totally disables the system. I'd look in the BIOS setup for any item referring to "splash" or "screen". I've got a couple of Digital boxes which put up a big splash screen while booting ... disabling that doesn't speed the boot process, and it still spends time "testing hard disks". :-( Still it's not as slow to boot as a MicrovaxII. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 187297 | 2003-10-29 01:15:00 | If you can find out the trouble you had with WinME it's probably related to the problems XP is facing, what message is the bluescreen giving? Is it a random event this bluescreen or does it happen regularly? Seems that the crash is related to startup, possibly a file becoming corrupt, could be related to memory (RAM) or video memory and possibly an overheating problem. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 187298 | 2003-10-29 03:09:00 | Is hard to tie down the messages the pc works fine for me but when I give it back it plays up for the owner, this is one that happened recently, >Blue screened this morning (07.20am)!!! came up with a code >PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. They are never the same,the owner reckons its best if its left on with the top closed. If I reformat in NTFS instead of FAT32 will be less buggy. Thanks for the interest, John. |
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