Please help!!! I am running a home built 1.8 gig, 512 ram P4 XP machine that has worked fine for two years. Now it started restarting itself after only two minutes. Not enough time to get to system restore. But wait it gets better. Now it won't even get that far. It gets to the screen to pick last good config. Anything I try does not work. I get a boot failure black screen. If I hit f8 during intel screen I have no option to boot from cd-rom, only hard drive and intel motherboard boot. Any ideas?
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Jump to PostOk I looked up how to get to the BIOS setup on your board...from the Intel site: Boot-up the computer and press "F2" to run Setup.
"Boot-up" meaning immediately after you turn the PC on you can start tapping F2 like once every two seconds...normally you would get a …
Jump to PostWell, glad to hear you're making progress. :) The install of the hard drive depends on what hard drive you have and what cables you are using. One way or another, each drive can be configured as a Master, Slave or put in Cable Select mode. On each cable, there …
Jump to PostIt never could have been Adware Mark, your problems were occurring much too soon in the boot process for that. Adware doesn't get loaded until later. We had these sorts of problems long before Adware became popular.
Jump to PostI get to the boot option sometimes but there is no cd-rom option in the list. I have checked all of the tabs across to top of the boot screen and I'm pretty sure I have seen the right option while moving through the screens.
Just removable device, Hard drive …
Jump to Postgo to boot in bios and arrow down to boot device priority and change first boot device to optical drive that you want to boot from.also if you tap esc repeatedly it should bring up a select boot device option
i mean press escape(esc) :p repeatedly on reboot
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