Must Press F1 to continue

[Guest]

I have a computer that I just put a new hard drive into with fresh
install of Win XP home. It's an Intel board and the start up always
pauses after the messages that it's detected a keyboard and mouse and
usb. Then it pauses and just says press F1 to continue.
Pressing F1 makes it continue to start up normally.
I have reset the Bios values to defaults and tried to change several of
them, with not effect at all. If I unplug the keyboard it sometimes
skips the F1 pause.

The intel website has not proved helpful. They don't have any discussion
groups either.

Any ideas on how I could make it just start up without me pressing F1?

Jeff

 

[Carl G]

You can try going to the bios and check the boot order of your hard drives,
make sure that system hard drive is listed first.
Try that.

 

[Bob I]

In the BIOS, try changing the "Halt on error" setting.

 

[Guest]

I handn't thought of the battery.
Wouldn't it lose the date and time if the battery was dead?

 

[Bob I]

Yes.

I handn't thought of the battery.
Wouldn't it lose the date and time if the battery was dead?

:

 

[D.Currie]

I have a computer that I just put a new hard drive into with fresh
install of Win XP home. It's an Intel board and the start up always
pauses after the messages that it's detected a keyboard and mouse and
usb. Then it pauses and just says press F1 to continue.
Pressing F1 makes it continue to start up normally.
I have reset the Bios values to defaults and tried to change several of
them, with not effect at all. If I unplug the keyboard it sometimes
skips the F1 pause.

The intel website has not proved helpful. They don't have any discussion
groups either.

Any ideas on how I could make it just start up without me pressing F1?

Jeff

I had a computer that was doing that; not a new build, it just started
happening. What it ended up being was a dying hard drive. Once I replaced
the drive, everything was fine.

I know you said you just put in a new drive, but being new doesn't guarantee
anything. I've had plenty that were bad right out of the box.

 

[Frank]

When the F1 message comes up on an Intel board it usually
means that there is an error in the BIOS setup. I have to
assume that this is an older board because there is no setup
defaults in the newer boards. In the older board there is
a HDD detection, which if set to AUTO should work.
Intel recommends that if something is not used, it should be
disabled. i.e. com ports, parallel ports or whatever.