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Why do I have to press ESC to boot?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:11:12 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Viberg" wrote : Hi all! After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why? Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine... My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller. Hope someone can help! Thanks, Janne My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios Incorrect BIOS setting I would think either in the Main BIOS or the PCI controller card. check the manual for the PCI card. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html It's a G not a J in gmx for email Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:11:12 GMT, "Viberg"
wrote: Hi all! After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why? Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine... My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller. Hope someone can help! Thanks, Janne My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios press F1, enter setup, save the (unchanged) settings. I think that's just an oddly quirk of the Intel-Phoenix bios, in case you wanted to change the boot drive. Dave |
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Hi again!
Thanks for your tips. I've tried "everything"; using another Promise IDE-controller (ATA/100 tx2), inboard disk-ctrlr, prevoius disk on all these etc. All with the same result: just when the operating system is about to be loaded , the system beeps twice, halts and comes up with the message: Press ESC to resume F1 to enter setup F3 for previous page". It's very annoying, even though pressing ESC makes everything work... Thanks, Janne "Viberg" wrote in message ... Hi all! After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why? Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine... My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller. Hope someone can help! Thanks, Janne My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios |
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:28:42 GMT, "familjen Viberg"
wrote: Hi again! Thanks for your tips. I've tried "everything"; using another Promise IDE-controller (ATA/100 tx2), inboard disk-ctrlr, prevoius disk on all these etc. All with the same result: just when the operating system is about to be loaded , the system beeps twice, halts and comes up with the message: Press ESC to resume F1 to enter setup F3 for previous page". It's very annoying, even though pressing ESC makes everything work... Thanks, Janne Did you also try reselecting the boot drive in the BIOS, THEN saving it? Dave |
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Hi Dave!
My boot drive is connnected to an IDE controlcard with its own bios. Because of this the drive doesn't show up in the bios of the motherboard... I've had this working for years, the problems I'm experiencing now is only after installing the latest bios for the motherboard (and I can't revert since I don't have the previous version anymore). The board is a Tabor3, Intel 440BX chipset, Intel/Phoenix bios. Thanks, Janne "kony" skrev i meddelandet ... On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:28:42 GMT, "familjen Viberg" wrote: Hi again! Thanks for your tips. I've tried "everything"; using another Promise IDE-controller (ATA/100 tx2), inboard disk-ctrlr, prevoius disk on all these etc. All with the same result: just when the operating system is about to be loaded , the system beeps twice, halts and comes up with the message: Press ESC to resume F1 to enter setup F3 for previous page". It's very annoying, even though pressing ESC makes everything work... Thanks, Janne Did you also try reselecting the boot drive in the BIOS, THEN saving it? Dave |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:59:43 GMT, "Viberg"
wrote: Hi Dave! My boot drive is connnected to an IDE controlcard with its own bios. Because of this the drive doesn't show up in the bios of the motherboard... I've had this working for years, the problems I'm experiencing now is only after installing the latest bios for the motherboard (and I can't revert since I don't have the previous version anymore). The board is a Tabor3, Intel 440BX chipset, Intel/Phoenix bios. Thanks, Janne IF changing the boot-drive settings and saving before exiting the bios setup doesn't help, I don't know. You might seek that last bios you had working OK. It should be an OEM board, did you go to the OEM's website and seek an older BIOS? You might also ask-around in a newsgroup dedicated to that OEM, someone may have the bios you need. Dave |
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