XP Bootup

[Johnathon Steel]

Ok here's my dilemma...

Just built a brand new Athlon. has windows xp but whenever I do a restart or
a cold shut down and restart it will go to the BootUp menu where the
Normal/safe mode/safemode with network options.

All the updates are current.

I am at wits end on what I can do to fix it. Anyone run into this problem?

Thanx

 

[Carl]

Try changeing your display settings.

 

[Johnathon Steel]

what does the display setting have to do with the pc on initial bootup???

 

[Tom Foolery]

I had "kind" of the same situation. Seems the battery on the motherboard was
weak, and the BIOS was losing information (or something like that).
Anyway.......changed the battery, and everything works fine now.

 

[Johnathon Steel]

Interesting... I may try that... even tho its a brand new board but hey I
will try anything

Thanx

 

[a]

So "Normal" gets you in o.k. doesn't it?.
You have an Msdos.sys on your C:? Boot menu can be
triggered by it.

For example, I have "ME" on C: and "XP" on D: part of
Msdos.sys:
{
[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C
[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
BootDelay=0
BootLog=1
Logo=0
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDelay=0
BootMenuDefault=2
..... etc. }

XP's Boot.ini for this combination is:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /bootlog
C:\="Microsoft Windows ME"
......
May be error in your boot.ini; can change in XP:
My Computer->properties->Advanced->Startup&Recovery

 

[a]

So "Normal" gets you in o.k. doesn't it?.
You have an Msdos.sys on your C:? Boot menu can be
triggered by it.

For example, I have "ME" on C: and "XP" on D: part of
Msdos.sys:
{
[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C
[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
BootDelay=0
BootLog=1
Logo=0
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDelay=0
BootMenuDefault=2
..... etc. }

XP's Boot.ini for this combination is:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /bootlog
C:\="Microsoft Windows ME"
......
May be error in your boot.ini; can change in XP:
My Computer->properties->Advanced->Startup&Recovery