Boot from CD?????????

[Guest]

When I start my computer and before I can sign in, I get the black screen as
usual. But now it srops for a long time, just hanging there. It says in the
bottom:
DMI Pool Data
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:

What should I do?

 

[Kerry Brown]

When I start my computer and before I can sign in, I get the black
screen as usual. But now it srops for a long time, just hanging
there. It says in the bottom:
DMI Pool Data
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:

What should I do?

For some reason your hard drive is not being recognised. It may be a
hardware failure or simply a setting in the BIOS. I don't want to sound
condescending but if you were stumped by this then I recommend you get
someone who knows more about computers to take a look at it for you. Your
hard drive may have failed. Trying to fix things without knowing what you
are doing may cause the loss of all your data on the hard drive.

 

[Guest]

Your hard drive may have failed.

Could this be the case? The computer starts, it just takes longer. I don't
notice any differences when it has started

 

[Kerry Brown]

Could this be the case? The computer starts, it just takes longer. I
don't notice any differences when it has started

I missed the part in your original post that you got to the sign in screen.
It appears your hard drive is working. Do you have a CD in the drive? If you
have a bootable CD in the drive that may be causing the problem. If not it's
probably a BIOS setting.