XP continues to reboot itself and does not load

[Guest]

XP continues to reboot. When I attempt to boot from floppy or get a prompt,
I receive an error stating F1 to try again (which same error appears
everytime I hit F1) and F2 to change how you boot up (which I have changed
this several times and it seems it wants to only boot up or reboot from the
hard drive). Could this be that the hard drive is corrupt. Any help would
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wil

 

[Guest]

When it tries to boot to HDD, what happens?
Does it lock up or stall?
Do you get any error messages?
What are they exactly stated?
Do you know how to set BIOS to boot from floppy, or other HDD< If applicable?

 

[Michael Stevens]

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XP continues to reboot. When I attempt to boot from floppy or get a
prompt, I receive an error stating F1 to try again (which same error
appears everytime I hit F1) and F2 to change how you boot up (which I
have changed this several times and it seems it wants to only boot up
or reboot from the hard drive). Could this be that the hard drive is
corrupt. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wil

You need to access the bios and enable the floppy if disabled and then set
boot order to boot floppy before hard drive.
This has nothing to do with XP as XP has not even loaded.
Why are you trying to boot from floppy?
Accessing BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

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