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Name: Rich187
Date: June 21, 2006 at 00:15:10 Pacific
OS: Win XP SP2
CPU/Ram: Athelon
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I'm having trouble booting my computer. It was on sitting idle one day then it just went to a black screen asking me to put in a boot disk then hit any key. I tryed turning it on and off but the same screen keeps appearing, i can't enter my bios by pressing F8 or Esc i have tryed every key. The computer has two hard drives in it, i thought one might have died so i swaped it with a working one but the same screen appears. The computer has a floppy drive dvd burner and cd-rom about 512mb of RAM and is about 3 years old, sorry about the sketchy details but its a mates. I don't know wether i have a problem with the BIOS or hardware issues. Any ideas on how to get windows back would be appreciated, i tryed posting before but didn't give a very helpful description hopefully this is a little better, thanks for all your replys last time, cheers.



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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: June 21, 2006 at 00:34:17 Pacific
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If you have an XP disc, pop it in and reboot, then at the prompt hit any key to boot from disc. Then try a Repair install.

Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks


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