Boot problem Need Help

[Guest]

Ok suddenly 2 weeks ago i turn on my computer running win xp pro it boots
then stops at black screen with system info and says press del to continue
and you have to press del to continue booting the system im not virus or
trojan or spywared and this just suddenly happened can anyone offer me advice
or help please im desperate afraid to turn computer off

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Sounds like somehow you are getting to your BIOS setup screen. This has
nothing to so with Windows. Look at the manual for your machine, for BIOS
Setup Utility or similar.

Not knowing the brand, etc. of your machine I doubt that anyone can walk you
through it.

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[Guest]

no manual its dell dimension p3 1 gigahertz 512 ram and just started having
this problem suddenly and need to figure how to fix this

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Are there any other messages on the screen along with press del to continue?

It is possible that your CMOS battery is dying. Because of a weak battery
your BIOS may be incapable of retaining its configuration data. Is your
clock keeping the correct time? These are related.

You probably want to replace the battery, they only cost a couple of bucks.

How To Replace The CMOS Battery In Your PC
http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/articles/cmosreplace.asp

How to replace the CMOS battery
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

When was the last time you thought about the battery in your PC?
http://home.i-plus.net/jtmurphy/cmos.htm

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[Guest]

there is no other message soon as computer is turned on screen is black i get
info on my mouse enabled keyboard detected hd detected press del to continue
the battery is fine clock is keeping time and everything what else can i do
as far as i know the battery is fine and theres no other messages and when i
press del computer boots up like normal im running win xp pro btw

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Replace the battery to rule that out as the problem.

If replacing the battery doesn't fix it, you may have some kind of hardware
problem.

Ask Dell.

I copied and pasted the following from a site where a fella was having a
similar problem.

Press the DEL key on start up and go into the BIOS.

In the BIOS you can choose whether to see the POST messages. You, or
someone who had access to your computer, chose to see the POST messages.
If you want things to look the way they were, go back to the BIOS and
change the setting.

Change QUIET BOOT from enabled to disabled.

There's probably a message accompanying the "press DEL to continue" message.
There's either some hardware initialization failing as BIOS loads, or
there's a message in the event log that needs to be read and cleared.

DEL into BIOS. Right/left arrow through the pages until you find "system
event log", then arrow down to it and press 'enter'. Read the log, it could
contain info of a failure. If it just contains 'keyboard errors', select the
option to 'clear the log' and F10 to escape saving the changes.

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[Guest]

ok i replace the battery and still having the same problem i havent made any
system changes i cant enter bios either cause f8 key does nothing so cant
enter the bios that way I need it to BOOT like normal

 

[Guest]

i replace battery still same problem f8 doesnt even get me into bios i have
no spyware no boot sector errors i checked event logs and everything is fine