It should say Press ..., adjust your monitor. What is the second, third,
etc boot device.
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Dave, Rock and Rich, I will answer your answers all at the same time:
Dave, I
checked and it does not say to press f12 to boot from network at any
place on
the screen.
Ron, I checked the bios and the bootup shows it is to boot from drive D
which is a [4M-NEC DVD_RW ND-1300] CD-rom drive. I have never been in
this
BIOS before and therefore no changes could have been made by error. I
did not
see the Intel Boot Agent listed in the boot sequence. I left it as I
found it.
Rock, I have downloaded the "Data lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows",
version 1.02 from Western Digital but I have not run it as of yet. When
I was
in the BIOS I saw where the "Hard drive self diagnostics" was
enable...so I
thought that was good enough...you can correct me if I am wrong about
this.
Ron, after the Gateway Splash screen comes the following information
which
does not make a lot of sense to me but it may to some one else: The
below
information was not visible before my problem started.
Intel (R) Boot Agent Fe v4.1.10
Copyright (C) 1997-2003, Intel Corporation
Intel (R) Boot Agent PXE Base Code [BA1210BC-GW1]
Copyright 1997-2003, Intel Corporation
Client MAC ADD:00 0C F1 92 7E 04
GUI: 000CF192 7E04 2003 1104 130003000000
DHCP./ followed by a flashing cursor.
After nearly a minute this changes to; PXE MOF: Exiting Intel Boot
Agent.
The computer then goes into windows normally. Like I said, the above
information does not mean very much to me as my knowledge is limited in
this
area, and many other areas as well, of course. If any of you can make
anything out of this information It would be much appreicated. As you
can
see, at least I can get into windows without any input. When it first
started acting up, making those fast clicking noises from the computer,
I
used the MS XP disk to get into windows so I could run the tools
mentioned
below. When this first started I could not get into windows unless I
used the
XP Disk. After I did the error checking, with fix errors box checked,
and a
defrag, I was able to get into windows with any input on my part.
Hopefully
this information will mean something to one of you, or hopefully all of
you.
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Wayne
P. S. Rich, I will check and see if there is a forum on the Gateway
Website.
Thanks for reminding me.
:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-008018.htm
Check your Bios to see if Intel boot agent is listed as a boot device.
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Ron Sommer
Rich, I am sorry that I cannot explain this any better. The only
thing I
see
after the Gateway Splash screen are the words: Intel (R)boot agent
FE
v4.1.18
and some other writing that does not make a lot of sense to me. This
stays
on
the screen for a minute or less and then it exits the Intel boot
agent and
then goes into windows. The hard drive is not making any noise at
all,
completely quiet, so I think I will quit while I am still ahead.
Thank you
both for your time
Oh! one more thing, I used the recovery console from the windows XP
disk
and
at the prompt I typed fixmbr which repairs the startup partition's
master
boot code. However, it still boots into windows the same way. It is
booting
into windows now from the hard drive so I am satisfied with the way
it is.
Before it would only goe past the Gateway Splash screen and then
start
making
the rapid clicking noise. As soon as I ran the error checking , and
for it
to
fix all errors, this seemed to have taken care of this problem.
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Wayne
:
Wayne, since you are talking about a
Proprietary
Setup ( Gateway ) it' difficult to advise you. Does Gateway have a
forum that you can discuss this with? What you are probably
seeing
is a
Verbose Dos Screen that is showing you all the
drivers and devices that are loading up similar to the way
Linux
loads.
Intel does not have boot files. Your boot.ini is
provided by WinXP along with ntldr and ntdetect.com
A few days ago I had problems getting my computer started. It
would go
just
beyond the Gateway Splash Screen and would stop. A clicking noise
could
be
heard coming from the computer near the hard drive. I called
Gateway
and
they
had me run a test on the computer but it did not indicate a hard
drive
even
though they sent me a new one. I have been using the windows XP
disk to
get
into windows instead of the boot up files from the hard drive.
Since I
used
error checking and defrag I can now get into windows without
using the
windows XP disk. However, it seems to be booting from the boot
files
from
intel, what ever that means and it is not the same way as it was
before.
It
takes a lot longer time to get it to boot. I am thinking that
something
may
have happened to my boot up files on the hard drive. If this is
the
case,
is
there any way that I can just restore the boot files from the XP
CD and
try
that to see if it works? I do not have any idea why or how the
boot
files
could have got corrupted. Any help would be appreciated.