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Boot Up Problem
When my computer boots up I get a dos message telling me to insert a boot disk in drive a:/. I am guessing this is a bios problem but I am unable to figure this out. The only way I can get into Windows is to go into the bios set up select f5 for default options and f10 to save the changes.

Boot-up problems
For the moment, it's an intermittent problem, and if I keep attempting to reboot, the PC does successfully boot up eventually. Can anyone give guidance on why this should suddenly start happening, and what I can do to fix it. Also I don't have a System Disk for this PC. A "System Disk" is simply a disk (floppy,

Another Boot Up Problem...
The most recent is a boot up problem. Sometimes the computer boots up fine but other times the screen just goes dark. Hitting the reset one to six times eventually it will boot. It goes through the countdown and sometimes it starts and other times it just freezes at "0". Today the computer booted up fine and ran

Boot Up Problem and ...?
I have a windows me boot up problem,i have to re-boot my comouter 3 or 4 times untill i get a desktop,it started doing this suddenly,i have formatted the HD and re-installed the operating system to see if this would cure it,it did for a while then suddenly the problem has started again,sometimes it will only boot

Mirrored disk boot up problem
"Rob" wrote in message: snipped every time I boot up my PC I get the following blue screen and error message:- The 32 bit device driver CDRPWD(01) + 0000AD23 has attempted to use a system service which is not loaded. It may be possible to continue normally. * press any key to attempt to continue * press ctrl alt

win me boot up problem
Edwin van Boven el...@casema.net intel motherboards pentium On 30 Nov 1998 19:21:54 GMT, Phil Rogers <pdrog...@ti.com> wrote: I have a P133 Advanced/ZP motherboard with an apparent temperature-related boot-up problem. When it has been off for a while, it always fails to boot the first time power is applied.

PC Boot Up Problem
Mistoffolees mistyfa...@danang.rvn microsoft public windowsxp newusers Alec D wrote: My PC wont even boot up correctly. I,m on my Parents office PC right now, and I need help fast before it gets worse. Last night, I was just doing my normal things; playing a few games, talking on MSN, etc.

Windows XP and boot up problem
Sometimes the system would boot, but then it would die. You might want to double check that bottom side of the motherboard is not coming into contact with any metal parts of your case. Especially up at the leading edge of the motherboard. After double checking I noticed some of the solder pads under the mobo,

Boot up problem with 520STFM
He's just been on the blower to advise that the PC is not booting up at all - he just gets a blank screen. He's checked all leads etc are sited OK but still had no joy. Any advise on how to resolve the problem would be much appreciated (I have no further details exactly what's happening on boot up at this stage).

HP 7200 causing boot-up problem
You don't say what the error is when you boot in normal mode though. I ran though the trouble shooting program up to the point of instructions concerning disabling all devices. I haven't done that yet. I don't want to make the problem any worse. Please advise on how to proceed. Thank you.

Win 98 Boot-Up problem-"Insufficient Memory"
BIOS chip label printed "1998, PCI/PNP 686, 118097093". My friend had told me he had performed one BIOS update before and he found some boot up problem afterwards. However, the problem he found didn't stop him from finally booting up the PC (although boot up took longer than he expected) ie boot up didn't fail in

Boot up problem
You might try powering the router down and up again. "Bob" <randomaccess386@hotmail. com> wrote in message news:dh8_7.53536$Yf.3527386@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com... I have a dsl connection through a linksys 4 port router. My PC is running XP, my son's is running Win98. Boot up of the XP machine started taking a

Boot-Up Problem Query
°Mike° ZHNTPDWBL...@fcnzzbgry.pbz 24hoursupport helpdesk Troubleshooting Windows 98 Startup Problems http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q188867 On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:13:11 +0100, in message <ao8s9f$md...@news6.svr.pol.co. uk>, "l" <s...@SPAMhotmail.com> scrawled: whenever i start up my

KT7-raid boot up problem????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now one last problem---it is running ok, but I am a perfectionist and want a clean boot--- right now it boots--flashes on the windows startup screen --then goes back to black loading screen ---when it does this---this comes up C:\>rem TShoot C:\>rem TShoot: SET BLASTER=A220 15 D1 T4 Bad Command or File Name What

Boot up problems please help!!
Drives power up, fans come on but no boot. Tag the reset button and off it goes. Have read several reports of this in the various VIA / AMD / GeForce forums around the web. One report stated that for him it only happened with the 1 gig T-bird. Both slower and faster processors worked fine.

boot up problem!
When I boot up my system, it loads to my desktop quickly. But for over 2 minutes, if I hover my cursor over the task bar, it's an hourglass (wait) cursor, and I am not even able to open my start button for over 2 minutes. On the desktop, I can double click and open my My Computer Icon, but I get a blank window,

Boot up problem
Malke mal...@attbi3.com microsoft public windowsxp general David wrote: I have an occasional boot up problem. The machine 'hangs up' whilst booting up, then error message"searching for boot record file SCSI not found" "Insert boot diskette in A". Re-booting brings up the same. To get round I have to turn off at the

Software Win98 boot-up problem
4) Getting the system to boot up without any problems and then 1 - 6 hours later on a cold boot-up the problem returns I did have the system working without any problems for a few days and even had it networked to my other computer using the TCP/IP protocol , but then I started getting these problems.

BI440ZX board boot-up problem
My problem is that when I connect up my external USB harddrives prior to boot-up, the OS will not load, and I get a "cannot load OS" message. After boot-up, I can plug in the hd's and the computer sees them and all is ok. I had this problem previously (before moving the computer) and it turned out that the BIOS was

Boot Up Problem
I had some problems on a Duo with a mix of HDT and Silverlining when switching start-up drives: I had to shut down for the new setting to become active, simple restart did not do it. Your's only seem the little bit more nasty case of that problem. 2. Ever thought of replacing the PRAM battery?