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Windows won't boot until I hit F1
Name: Brandon Date: October 27, 2002 at 16:17:28 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: Pentium III / 384 mb
Comment:
When my computer is booting up it always stops near the F12 help option and makes me hit F1 to continue. How can I get it to boot up straight to Windows like it used to? (I have three high schoolers and a college student using it so who knows what happened behind the scenes that I'll never know about.)
Name: Brown1955 Date: October 27, 2002 at 16:59:37 Pacific
Reply:
Someone will correct me real quick if I am wrong but I think you can boot with a 98 boot disk and type in sys C: and it will transfer the system files back to your boot record.
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Response Number 2
Name: Pete Date: October 27, 2002 at 17:21:16 Pacific
Reply:
Does it say what the problem is ? It might be helpful in trying to find a solution
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: October 27, 2002 at 20:31:43 Pacific
Reply:
I think that's a bios configuration message--it happens before the OS starts to load, right? If so the system files have nothing to do with it.
Check your cmos. You might want to load the setup defaults. Also enable 'reset configuration data'
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Response Number 4
Name: brandon Date: October 28, 2002 at 09:20:27 Pacific
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yes, it happens before Windows loads. i'll check out the CMOS instructions.
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Response Number 5
Name: budm Date: October 28, 2002 at 12:54:38 Pacific
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check the cmos battery.
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Response Number 6
Name: Mooky Date: October 29, 2002 at 07:23:53 Pacific
Reply:
I strongly agree with Davein & Budm. That's the way to go.
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