Startup Screen Tells To Push F2 / Doesn't Can't Access BIOS
Oct 24, 2007
I'm Currently Dual-booting between Windows XP and Fedora Core 5 on my laptop. I no longer want FC5 so I thought I would format that partition to regain my hard drive space. I thought the easiest way to do that would be to boot from my windows CD, but discovered that my System won't do that anymore (I know it used to, because thats how I installed FC5 in the first place). It won't boot from my FC5 cd's either.So I tried to access the BIOS to see what's going on, but for some reason I can't. The startup screen tells me to push F2 but that doesn't work.
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Jul 5, 2010
I'm building a new computer here, and i'm using a previously owned mobo. I'm having an issue getting pass the BIOS spalsh screen and into the boot menu so i could bootup and install windows. I have no beeps at all. every component of this computer is brand new except for the motherboard. I try to go into the setup and i get the dialogue, "Entering Setup..." but it just stays frozen like that.
I know i have to Clear CMOS and i removed the CMOS battery for almost 3 days and nothing at all. i cannot find the CMOS jumper. i see a jumper near the CMOS battery but it isnt labeled clr cmos. i removed it and put it on the 2nd and 3rd pin and the machine doesnt even turn on, but when i locate it back to the 1st and 2nd pin, it turns on perfectly fine, but i still cannot get past the startup screen
the screen i cannot get past looks similar to the image below.
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A few days ago strange lines started appearing on my computer screen. It has progressed and I could barely see anything. Then monitor kept going into "power saver" mode and back when I booted Windows in normal mode. I booted Windows in "safe mode". Monitor wasn't shutting off anymore but the screen was barely readable.I managed to save my data on external drive. I put in my Windows installation disk and restarted computer wanting to format the hard disk and reinstall Windows.When I would restart I would see black screen and hear DVD drive spinning but nothing was happening. Now when I restart I see this .This screen just stands there. I cannot access the BIOS, load Windows or boot from CD/DVD. All 3 fans in my comp work fine when computer is on. I tried removing this battery and putting it back later but it didn't help. My computer has 2 gigs RAM, runs Win XP Professional SP2 and this is my motherboard .At this point I have no idea what to do or even what caused this. I was hoping to format and reinstall Windows but I'm unable to boot.
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Aug 22, 2010
as above, pentium 4 windoiws xp black screen on startup cannot see bios menu or get to safe mode.
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I just replaced my old DVD ROM with a new DVD-RW drive. The system writes to the new drive fine (I have burned a couple of Video DVDs) but when I boot the system the Bios says it doesn't see the D: (CD) or E: (DVD) drive. Once I am into Windows XP I can also play CDs from the CR-RW drive but I can't use it to copy new software onto the system.
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Feb 18, 2008
My sister is having so many problems due to just downloading anything that moves off of the internet and is wanting to just have a fresh start.When I boot up her computer.It gives me the options of f1=setup f10=system recovery.I want f10 but it will not allow me to access that.I push f10 and it just proceeds like I haven't pushed anything.I figure that it's the keyboard but I switched hers with mine and some others I had laying around and still no good.Basically I want to know if there was/is a way I could do a system recovery in command prompt or in a .bat file of some sort? Or if anyone else has any suggestions feel free to post.
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Mar 1, 2008
I keep trying to access BIOS by tapping F2 or DELETE or F10 but the boot continues like no keys were tapped. Except for that, the computer functioning normally. Can someone tell me how to change it back to normal.
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Apr 9, 2009
I have a dell workst precision 470 dual xeon, 3gb , 160gb maxtor hd sata 150 with win xp pro.created the floppy with PROBABLY THE RIGHT CONTROLER driver and pressed F6, then it was only one option in the list so i did that then, CONTINUW with an oem cd win xp pro spk 2, then at the WELCOME TO SETUP screen, i selected the "TO SETUP WINDOWS XP now press enter" then i got on the screen this Message: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your comp. make sure any hard disk drives are powered and properly connected to your computer and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct this may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diag or setup program.set p cannot continue to quit setyp press F3".I have tested the hd with dell diag. tool and al test pass, i believe has to be that the mate boot record has been corrupted or a virus, the thing is i can not even run R console or the Repair/install cause of the above message, is there any suggestion to add this hd to another computer and be able to check the boot.ini and see what is wrong, this is a hd with only one partition, but the problem i have or the one that was created is cause i had a laptop hd that i could not make boot in the laptop so i took it and added to this comp. to the ide 1 controller and then i ran defrag on it, this one has two part c and d so c was the os and d was for other applications, i ran the defrag on it , then i did not remove from the device manager i just simply turn of the dell machine and Physicly remove the laptop hd, then when i was trying to boot the dell 470, i got the the stop error:"STOP: 0X0000007B(0XBA4EB524,0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)", so i think the Boot.ini file is corrupted, the machine is confused or the sata controller driver got corrupted, i am wondering of any sugestion about modifiying the boot.ini file or FIXMBR how in my case, i don't want to reformat the hd .
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Oct 18, 2007
I dug around some before posting, but I couldn't find anyone having the same problem as me, and I'm hoping this is the most appropriate forum. I apologize for the length, but I wanted to post everything I thought might be pertinent. I was playing Guild Wars when my GeForce 4 Ti4400 died. I got a working Radeon 9700 from a friend (he was using it up until the moment I got it, and I ran AquaMark 3D on it) and ran into only a billion problems. When I performed certain actions involving the online video game Guild Wars, my computer would suddenly reboot with no warning. I adjusted "reboot on error" in the system properties. It no longer rebooted, but instead, I got a solid blue screen (no words, just a blue screen), and I had to hold the power switch down to turn off the system. I suspect that troubleshooting this BSoD problem and putting my system through that repeatedly probably messed up some settings or something. The last thing I did to my computer was install the ATI Catalyst 7.8 display driver only (I was testing out the various driver releases one-by-one to see if any of them fixed my BSoD problem). It installed, asked me if I wanted to restart, I clicked yes, it began restarting, froze at a black screen (not the first time I had that problem since all my video card/Guild Wars problems), I once again held the power switch down to turn it off, waited a few seconds to turn it back on, and since then I have had the error described under the "Current Problem" heading above.
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Mar 2, 2005
Hewlett Packard PC. Hangs on start up at HP Logo window so I planned to reformat/reinstall XP Home Edition.
Pressed F1 to get into BIOS and it displays the words..."entering Setup." but it just hangs there never lets me into the BIOS.
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Jan 30, 2006
I don't know what I installed or did wrong lately to have this blue screen to keep popping up when I open the computer. It happens randomly, but more frequent as of now. The blue screen says "Windows has come to a problem and shut down to prevent future damage to your computer," or something of that nature. Then it further goes into saying that I should check my computer if there's enough physical memory. I have a total of 70.3 GB total HD space, and 17.3 GB is free, how can it be the physical memory problem? I have 512 MB RAM, in which about 250-300 is free, and the remaining is usually running. The problem sometimes doesn't even pop up at startup, it sometimes pops up when I'm working on the computer. This error shutdown is sometimes accompanied by lagging, or is followed with multiple programs functionally at very slow rates.
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Jan 1, 2010
i cant access bios on my laptop and my laptop wont bootup.
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I can't seem to be able to get into my System's BIOS, that system being Windows XP Professional. I've tried the Hold Del at startup method, but it doesn't work.Is there an alternate method with which I could use?
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I have a old Sony VIAO PCV-1112 with Windows XP. I was out of town (so I don't know what the trigger for the issue was) and came back to a black screen that begins with "Award Medallion Bios v 6.0". It also says "Hardware Monitor found an error. Enter power setup menu for details." At the bottom of the screen is shows: Press F1 to continue. F2 to enter setup.
a. Nothing happens when I press F2.
b. When I press F1, the Windows loading screen appears, but it fails to initialize XP and goes to a black screen that says that Windows failed to load...and it lists the prompts to reboot in Safe Mode, Normal Mode, Normal Mode with prompt, Normal Mode with Networking, Last Known Good Config, etc. No matter which mode I choose, it reboots and goes back to the Award Medallion Bios v6.0 message screen.
c. When I press Esc > F8 > F1, I am able to get the boot order to pop up and I selected boot from DVD/CD drive. I've tried putting various iso files on disc into that drive in the hopes of trying to get in to recover data files off the HDD. I tried rebooting with the ISO file in the DVD/CD drive, and nothing happens with any of these: Bit Defender; Kaspersky Rescue; or Avira Rescue. I rebooted with the Knoppix rescue ISO, and it actually initialized the DVD/CD drive for about 30 seconds - showed a black screen with a flashing prompt (couldn't type anything though) and then it went back to the Award Medallion Bios v6.0 message screen. I thought it might be the way I copied the ISO files; since when I copied them on my HP laptop, I got warning messages that not all related information would be copied. So I'm looking for an ISO copy app that might help with that? Unless I'm barking up the wrong tree...?
d. When I put in the Windows Recovery CD in that same drive, it does pull up the recovery GUI - but I don't want to loose my data. So it does recognize that Windows ISO.I'm at a loss on how to get into the VIAO hdd to try to copy down the data files that I need, before restoring Windows XP. Is there a way to connect my laptop to the PC to try to copy down the files? I'm a computer newbie, so I need a walk through on what to do.
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Aug 13, 2005
While in XP I deleted a partiain that had Fedora on it. I was using GRUB to do multi-boot. When I rebooted XP it booted to the GRUB command line. I rebooted and hit F12 to try to get to system settings and after I chose system settings it went right back to the GRUB command line. I rebooted again and hit F2 to get to system settings and it went straight to the GRUB command line again.I'm pretty sure I need to fix my MBR but, I can't change my settings to boot from my CD and I don't have a floppy drive.
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Jul 5, 2005
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Jan 27, 2010
I am trying to access my system setup , So i can boot from my xp cd .I tried to hit F2 but it just keeps taking me to a black screen wanting my pw . I forgot my Pw and after trying to guess my pw to many times it now just shows a black screen wanting a pw ? How can i get pass this ? I have never seen this before .Need a Pw to get to bios setup?I cant boot from my cd unless i get into the bios setup .
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Apr 16, 2007
Dell Optiplex running WinXP Pro from a reinstallation, not OEM, At startup I always get a window telling me I have "used the System Configuration Utility to make changes to the way Windows starts", which is totally untrue.It then offers me a box to check to "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts". I haven't checked the box (yet) because I'm afraid I won't be able to ever launch the Utility. So my question is: if I check the box to keep ity from launching at startup, will I be able to run it later run/msconfig?
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Sep 16, 2006
just installed a second internal hard drive. tried to access bios at start up (to setup hard drive) but system doesn't respond to ANY keyboard keys. system just continues with normal Windows boot-up. once XP is running all functions and software seem fine. no matter how many times I try at "Press Del to enter Setup" nothing works. Jusat before I had this problem, I had a problem with software (which I have removed) that caused my system to lock up. when I rebooted system stopped and offerred reboot options, ea: Safe Mode, but I the arrow keys would not work, system just went directly to Windows boot up.how can I access the bios if system doesn't respond to keyboard?
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May 9, 2007
I have this strange problem:I can't see my Bios loading .The screen is totaly black untill the windows' welcome screen , and then everything is back to normal.
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Jul 11, 2005
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