Boots to black screen with POST info and "Press F1 To Resume" and "Hit F12 To Boot From Network". I'm not on a network. Pressing F1 results in computer booting slowly to XP desktop. Computer then appears to work normally, except at 1/2 the normal speed. I can't boot the XP install CD and can't get to SAFE mode. Restoring to an earlier date (3 weeks) didn't work. Talked to Microsoft technician for 2 hours with no resolution. He thinks it is a BIOS/hardware problem.
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Hi,
Seems like a serious corruption. Press F2 enter bios and change boot sequence to first boot from cd and then do a repair.
Read from repair install section
http://www.webtree.ca/wind
if repair doesnt work try to format the computer and install windows xp but before that backup all the data on flash drive or cd.
If after installing windows its still slow then hardware issue.
Could be memory or hard drive.
Ded9
> "Press F1 To Resume" and "Hit F12 To Boot From Network".
This is your PC telling you to resume from a problem, but somewhere it tell you something (error message etc.) about the probel itself!
What does it tell you?
Also, did this happen out of the blue, what did you do?
Installed something? Changed anything?
I suspect that there's a problem with your hard drive. Try downloading a utility from the manufacturers site or use the Seagate one: www.seagate.com.
Thanks for all the replies! All of you are correct in that everything seems to point to a hardware problem.
I've disabled, unplugged, and turned off all kinds of stuff and nothing has helped. I got a reply from an Intel tech person and he indicated that the ?boot sector? of the hard drive is corrupted and that I have no choice but to format the HD and re-install XP. Or get a new HD. The old one is 5-1/2 years old!
To answer some of your questions: The problems started after removing the Roxio Easy Media Creator Version 9 and the "Drag & Drop" add-on. Something like this happened about 4 years ago when I removed a HP DLA program to install Version 5 of the Roxio program. No error message was ever displayed, then or now. I ran the Microsoft Memory Diagnostic Utility last night. No errors. I tried changing the boot sequence. Didn't help. No viruses or spyware. HD is clean of that stuff. All updates are current.
I'm going to get a new HD tomorrow and re-install everything. The computer runs well otherwise.
Thanks for all of your ideas!
Bob Lane
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by: chilternPCPosted on 2008-01-05 at 17:00:16ID: 20592001
press the <DEL> key while booting to get into th BIOS setup.
find the page that resets everything to default and exit.
several reasons why its slow?
1)do you have Norton? or another antivirus program? you need at least 512M and really have 1Gig or RAM otherwise Norton will slugg you machine to a snails pace.
2) you hard disc could be failing - and causing the whole system to be really slow - eventually the hard disc will fail and all your data will be gone forever......
3) you have viruses and spyware slowing your machine down (run spybot and an antivirus progrma to check)