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| Thread ID: 73442 | 2006-10-19 03:45:00 | A dollar to anyone who can solve this!!! | borax (7078) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 492592 | 2006-10-19 08:49:00 | Reset the BIOS, you may have had memory TSR's, load system defaults also. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 492593 | 2006-10-19 09:07:00 | Tried replacing the MBR? No, how would i go about doing that??? |
borax (7078) | ||
| 492594 | 2006-10-19 09:45:00 | Reset the BIOS, you may have had memory TSR's, load system defaults also. I have already reset the BIOS, what's TSRs? |
borax (7078) | ||
| 492595 | 2006-10-19 19:15:00 | No, how would i go about doing that??? fdisk /mbr from a bootable dos disk |
pctek (84) | ||
| 492596 | 2006-10-19 20:45:00 | gidday, wondering which option you used when using recovery partition,, close the computer, and on start, tap F10, this should give you the option to format and recover, or go back to last known good configuration. good luck, Robby |
Robby (3123) | ||
| 492597 | 2006-10-19 22:06:00 | Where are all those people now that suggested I rid myself of the floppy drive in my new computer specs? Huh, huh!! Come out wherever you are!!!!! Sorry - not much help to solve your problem. Good luck!! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 492598 | 2006-10-20 01:28:00 | It may be a USB problem.Run this patch: support.microsoft.com |
Pancake (6359) | ||
| 492599 | 2006-10-20 02:03:00 | Have you tried a LIVE linux CD like Knoppix ?This is what linux is good at. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 492600 | 2006-10-20 02:43:00 | From the start: After the power has been off (at the wall) for a while (not a second or too, give it time to completely forget everything in RAM), start it up . Does the POST run normally? Does it find all disks? Does it give any error messages? If so, what are they? Does the CD light come on when you'd expect the computer to try t boot from a CD? Does it complain about the CD ( no OS on device . . . etc)? What are you people talking about? Fixing the MBR might help it to boot Windows (although it is getting into the Windows loader, and failing some way into the boot process) ; but a CD boot never sees that MBR on the normal boot hard disk . TSRs are installed by an OS, after it has booted . During a boot, the only code running is the BIOS bootstrap, any BIOS extensions on device ROMs, then the loader installed from the selected boot device . You can't boot a live Linux CD if the BIOS refuses to boot from a CD . USB patches? It's failing to boot from a CD . USB drivers are needed when a USB device is present and the OS needs to access it . "Patches" patch code on disk, they do nothing until that code is loaded into RAM . That patch has nothing at all to do with problems in the boot process . :groan: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 492601 | 2006-10-22 09:21:00 | Hi guys, thanks a lot for all the help (partciculary to Robby). I resolved the issue by hitting F10 on boot, this put me into the HP system recovery programme. This was the one i ran originally through Windows. So i ran the programme again and it restored Windows and i was able to boot up OK. However Windows now suffers some real problems, Firewall not working, software wont install, McAffee has become corrupt etc etc. SO after all the ar5eing around with it i am now going to have to reinstall Windows from the HP disks. thanks again for all the help :) :D |
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