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Mystery machine

Mystery machineI built an Athlon computer for my housekeeper around Christmas. The onboard video card stopped working, so I bought a PCI video card. Now the PC won't even boot up, it freezes at the Windows 2000 screen. I can boot it in safe mode, but that's...

Tags: BIOS, board, boot help, card, Napa gnome, networking, pc troubles, video

Discussion threads 2005-08-19

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Boot Faliure

I am unable to boot my PC most of the times.Whenever I switch on my PC,I see the following message nine ot of ten times.“DiskError/Boot FaliureReboot and select proper boot device or insert Boot media in selected boot device”.If I press enter a

Tags: disk error, hardware, windows, gunjantech004@..., hard drive, floppy disk, disk, BIOS

Discussion threads 2006-11-11

How can I ghost a machine through network boot?

How can I ghost a machine through network boot?Using Symantic Ghost 7.0.Ghost Server and boot diskette?Do you mean you do not plan to use a boot diskette but want boot the workstation from the network? Otherwise just change the boot sequence and boot from the diskette when your Ghost...

Tags: diskette, Ghost Server, network, prdongare@..., windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

False Boot

On new Acer Aspire 3000 laptop, every third boot-up or so comes to the Win XP Desktop with the mouse pointer moving freely, but then nothing will launch or open. After re-boot, it works. Virus? Hardware problem?re:When you boot up your system f

Tags: dharris_llm@...

Discussion threads 2006-12-28

please help

i cannot boot up to my toshiba laptop after downloading bull anti virus. i was facing a problem with my run command dissappearing from my task bar. so i downloaded bull. when i was booting up my system after completing installation , im unable to boot up now!!! please help?Have...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, merv_dsilva@..., Safe Mode

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

can't boot linux

Linux & XP were the 2 OS in my system.later I installed 98;thereafter linux was not booting.is there a way to boot itre-install lilo / grubms' loadlin with win98 doesn't dualboot.should have a recue mode in the boot cd that will reinstall the bootloader so you can boot both.

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-01-07

Optimize Boot Files

Under the Optimize Boot Files key is a text value named Enable. A value of Y for this setting enables the boot files defragmenter. This setting defragments the boot files and may move the boot files to the beginning fastest part of the partition, but that last statement is unverified....

Tags: Boot, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Computer Wont Boot

I just bought a new SATA 200GB HDD w/ a complete computer package, and it wont boot.No matter what I do, it either hangs after DMI verification or "invalid system disk press enter" yada nonsense.The problem I'm having, even more so, is that nothing is booting.The boot disk works on...

Tags: raischrono@...

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Windows XP Hacks: Speed Up Boot and Shutdown Times

There's a simple way to speed up XP startup: make the system do a boot defragment, which will put all the boot files next to one another on the hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, the system will start faster. On most systems, boot...

Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Boot, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Book chapters 2005-02-11

Ghost boot failure on a Dell 740

I have a Dell optiplex 740 computer. I created a ghost boot image using ghost ver. 11.0. I receive a boot failure Boot from CD:1. HD System Type - (00) boot failureAlso does anyone know where I can get the DOS drivers for the Broadcom NetXteme 2 Gigabyte...

Tags: Ethernet, Desktops, cheryl.mason@..., Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Cannot Boot Win XP Pro

Recently, for reasons I cannot explain, my computer decided it would not boot. I think it has a Boot virus but can not seem to remove anything of this nature.I can see the files on the drive but that is as far as I can get.I have tried to make

Tags: software, windows, virus, Sauron, disk

Discussion threads 2006-11-13

How do I boot from USB???????????

I have a dell optiplex 170L with microsoft windows XP pro on it. How do I manage to enable usb to boot in bios. Any help will be appreciatedIf it is supportedYou'll find it in the Boot Order in BIOS you can chose what the Boot Order is and where

Tags: BIOS, ramboulrich@..., USB, Boot, Order

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

solaris 10 x86

I am trying to install solaris 10 on a x86.I created the iso file using the sun download manager and made a dvd. I wanted to set the boot config to my secondary 1 device DVD writer/reader but there is not a choice for it in the boot priority...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, jerry.d.holtz@..., Intel x86

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

Windows XP boot disk - master boot record question.

I created a Windows XP boot disk with the ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini files. My question is when you boot from the disk does it bypass the master boot record on your hard drive?I'm trying to figure out if a mbr is created on the disk when creating the...

Tags: boot-disk, contact@..., master boot record, windows, xp, windows xp, mbr, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows XP Boot, disk

Discussion threads 2007-02-25

Create bootable USB Flash drive

Can someone offer me help in creating a USB flash drive that will boot and execute Alteris ibmaster executablesoftware or at the least boot to a dos prompt.I used Bart's PE builder with no problem but I don't want to boot to Win XP.This will be used to boot and...

Tags: rgite@..., USB flash drive, bootable USB, bootable USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

PC Network Boot

I need to know whether it is possible for a pc to boot thru Network Boot when the pc is connected to an wireless access pointI would tend to think that your answer is NO!If you are attempting to boot through a WiFi Connection to a computer without an installed...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Desktops, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, gcsreevathsan@..., PC

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

booting my computer

When I boot my computer I get to the point where it asks me which os I want to boot to. I have two choices. One is windows xp and the other is windows xp. They are both the same. How do I fix this...

Tags: goodrich10@..., Microsoft Windows XP, computer

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

XP boot image file

I am trying to get my spare machine to boot from the main machine both running XP Pro. Both are networked via a SMC router. When I set the spare to boot from LAN it connects to the DHCP server the router and then faults because it is looking for...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, freddo_frog@..., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-05-06

can't boot laptop

I've tried to boot with ultimate boot cd and it will not boot. can't load windows on it. all it'll do is come on, show specifications of computer and say press F2 to change settings but I can't even do that because I got the laptop at a pawnshop a...

Tags: Notebooks, wmcclure01@..., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Get to know Windows Vista's new boot loader architecture

You don't need to know about what goes on in the background in order to set up and use Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration. However, if you plan on attempting to modify the boot procedure like you may have done when dual-booting Windows XP and previous Windows operating systems,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2007-03-22