Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i try and boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings. No matter what i do it will always go straight into the bios.
I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
I've changed the keyboard and nothing. its really starting to bug me now.
Specs (to the best of my knowledge):
Samsung DDR memory 256 x2
P4 2.7 ghz (think its a northwood)
Not too sure on the motherboard itself other than it was taken out of a packard bell iMedia and worked when it was removed.
maxtor 200 gig hd (ide)
DVD R/RW
>
> Hi.
>
> Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i try
> and boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings. No
> matter what i do it will always go straight into the bios.
> I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
> I've changed the keyboard and nothing. its really starting to bug
> me now.
I don't doubt your experience, but I don't recall hearing that one
before. My first lead might be to carefully flash/upgrade the BIOS.
Good luck.
>
> Specs (to the best of my knowledge):
>
> Samsung DDR memory 256 x2
> P4 2.7 ghz (think its a northwood)
> Not too sure on the motherboard itself other than it was taken out
> of a packard bell iMedia and worked when it was removed.
> maxtor 200 gig hd (ide)
> DVD R/RW
>
>
>
On May 25, 3:04*pm, edders <edders.39z...@no.email.invalid> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i try and
> boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings. No matter what
> i do it will always go straight into the bios.
> I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
> I've changed the keyboard and nothing. its really starting to bug me
> now.
>
> Specs (to the best of my knowledge):
>
> Samsung DDR memory 256 x2
> P4 2.7 ghz (think its a northwood)
> Not too sure on the motherboard itself other than it was taken out of a
> packard bell iMedia and worked when it was removed.
> maxtor 200 gig hd (ide)
> DVD R/RW
I suggest disconnecting the 200 gig hd and try to boot from a hd less
than 127 gig or a CDROM or floppy.
edders wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i try and
> boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings. No matter what
> i do it will always go straight into the bios.
> I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
> I've changed the keyboard and nothing. its really starting to bug me
> now.
>
> Specs (to the best of my knowledge):
>
> Samsung DDR memory 256 x2
> P4 2.7 ghz (think its a northwood)
> Not too sure on the motherboard itself other than it was taken out of a
> packard bell iMedia and worked when it was removed.
> maxtor 200 gig hd (ide)
> DVD R/RW
>
>
Is it asking you to press F1 to enter the BIOS ? Or press some other key ?
On my computer, if the computer is cold, and I start it, I'm thrown into
the BIOS. It prompts me to press F1. What is supposed to happen, is
I'd be put in the hardware monitor page of the BIOS. If a fan speed is
too low, or some other condition is outside of normal values, the
BIOS can stop the boot, and put up the press F1 prompt.
In the case of my computer, by the time I get into the BIOS to have
a look around, the condition the BIOS was complaining about, is
already corrected. When the computer starts, the PSU fan runs at
1725RPM. This motherboard has an 1800RPM minimum for fans. So
it flags the slow speed of my PSU fan, which exists for the first
minute or so. By the time I get into the BIOS, the RPMs are a
little more than 1800RPM. So there is nothing in red, and nothing
to see. I "exit without saving", and then the computer completes
the boot process. If I do a restart in Windows, the BIOS won't get
stuck a second time, because the PSU is already warm and the fan
will be over 1800RPM, to keep it cool.
I could probably set the BIOS to [ignore] the PSU fan, but
where is the fun in that ?
Depends what you mean by new? Have you tried replacing the bios back up battery or rebooting the bios by removing it for about three minutes or more? Note when you remove the bios battery you will have to go through bios set up as it will revert to the mobo factories settings, there usually a 'quick set' button what will save you the hassle.
The thing to do here is to remove all USB devices and unplug all the drives just leaving the CPU,Ram, and Graphic card installed, you should be able to boot in bios set up....
... if all was well here, you would get a message similar to "No hard drive found", "Hard drive error" or "Please insert the disc with the operating system on", the message varies from mobo to mobo but it would let you know there was no hard drive one way or another.
Your first goal is to get the bios to boot, properly known as POST (Power On Self Test), once this is done you usually get a bleep and then the bios hands control over to the CPU which then loads data from hard drive into RAM, it is at this stage it will either load windows or give you the above error message.
You might just double check any mobo links or DIL switches that sets the FSB clocking speed.
"edders" <edders.39zyvr@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
news:edders.39zyvr@no.email.invalid...
> Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i try and
> boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings. No matter what
> i do it will always go straight into the bios.
> I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
This symptom on my 3-year-old PC was cured by replacing the CMOS battery.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
> "edders" <edders.39zyvr@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
>> Just built a new (well i say new) pc for my sister. Whenever i
>> try and boot it up it forces itself to go into the bios settings.
>> No matter what i do it will always go straight into the bios.
>> I've cleared the cmos but to no avail.
>
> This symptom on my 3-year-old PC was cured by replacing the CMOS
> battery.
Another good lead, IMO, but first you should check the battery
voltage level in the BIOS if it exists.
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