P4C800E DLX F8 Bootmenu

[Jan van der Staaij]

To all,

I 'm a newbie on this group (from the Netherlands) and I have a question
about the fact that I am not able to enter the Win XP Prof. startupmenu
(pressing F8) while booting, because my Bios version (1016) seems to have
its own option when pressing F8 during Post, namely a menu for choosing the
boot drive.

All suggestions are welcome!!

Thanks in advance.

Jan

 

[Stephan Grossklass]

To all,

I 'm a newbie on this group (from the Netherlands) and I have a question
about the fact that I am not able to enter the Win XP Prof. startupmenu
(pressing F8) while booting, because my Bios version (1016) seems to have
its own option when pressing F8 during Post, namely a menu for choosing the
boot drive.

All suggestions are welcome!!

You must hit F8 just after XP has started booting. Could be tricky to
get the timing right. (Funnily enough, on my P3B-F the tricky thing is
getting the boot menu to appear by hitting Esc just before booting is
attempted and after the Promise BIOS - I have an Ultra66 in there -
disappears. That's a one or two second timeframe.)

Stephan

 

[Jan van der Staaij]

You must hit F8 just after XP has started booting. Could be tricky to
get the timing right. (Funnily enough, on my P3B-F the tricky thing is
getting the boot menu to appear by hitting Esc just before booting is
attempted and after the Promise BIOS - I have an Ultra66 in there -
disappears. That's a one or two second timeframe.)

Stephan

Thanks Stephan, but as you mentioned it is quite tricky and so far I have
not managed to get it right. Why for heavens sake did Asus choose the
F8-key, while knowing this one has its own particular function in WinXP? All
F-keys would be fine, except F8!!!! Any ideas? BTW, I mailed Asus several
times about this, but guess.... no reply at all.

Jan

 

[Brian Downing]

Thanks Stephan, but as you mentioned it is quite tricky

Simply ensure c:\boot.ini has more than one entry
and a line that says
timeout=10

and then during that 10 seconds you can press F8