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Computer wont get passed bios

ok a friend of mine built his computer a lil while back.

and one day he put in a new hard drive and all of a sudden windows asked him to activate again, so he called them and tryed and said he couldnt. so lol he decided to try and change the bios clock to buy him some time so he could buy a new copy. well when he did that windows didnt want to boot anymore period it would get to the screen with the lil bar that moves then just restart.

so he tryed to format and just start over. well now his computer boots past bios terriblly slow now. it wont get passed the bios anymore really.

is there anything he can do? he has a new copy of windows but it doesnt liek to get passed the bios for him to install. any tips?

thanks in advance

his motherboard is a

Asus P4P800-VM mobo
Nvidia geforce 6800 ultra
2 gigs - 1 gig 2 - 256's and 1 512
3.2 pentium d

anything else you need to kno ask :D

martin_babarik

One strange thing is (I have no idea how it works) that on many computers where I installed Windows the operation failed unless I changed the time and date to a settings corresponding to reality. Try this as a first think - use a real date/time/time zone. Sounds stupid, but it might help.

If the BIOS passing is very slow, you can disable detection of IDE/SATA devices if there is something like that. Anyway what is "terribly slow"? Seconds, minutes?

Logical11

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minutes like 2-3 each restart

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Logical11

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well i had a problem with this one and i remember what i did

first if it held up like it did i just removed all the drives off the IDE ribbon cept the main windows HD

then restart it, and sure enough that did it. we found out through trial and error that his back up HD isnt being recognized anymore by the bios so its time to back that HD up lol.

soo i guess i solved it. thx for all your alls help :D

Logical11

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thanks for all the tips everyone :D

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If you solved this issue yourself, you should not have awarded points for an accepted solution. I would speak to a moderator to refund your points since you solved this on your own.

Logical11

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i used all their tips tho and they all helped when i needed it so iawarded em anyway :P