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re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Monday, January 19, 2004 at 11:24 am
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Posted by Ann Miller (3 messages posted)

I finally got into the BIOS and changed the boot sequence so that it would boot from the cd-rom drive. I inserted my original Windows XP cd, restarted the computer, and I get nothing. The screen is blank, nothing loads.

On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:56 am, Ricer46 wrote:

>Getting into the BIOS has nothing to do with the OS, it's a matter of getting the 
>timing right. It's easiest to just start hitting the button repeatedly until something 
>happens. Getting into Safe Mode is a different matter. Again you should hit F8 repeatedly, 
>but it's common for people not to be able to get into Safe Mode with XP using the 
>F8 key. If you can't then you're somewhat in trouble. You can try to do a repair 
>re-installation:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341
>
>but that will mean booting from your CDROM, and you'll probably have to get into 
>the BIOS to do that.
>
>






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re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ricer46: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:56 am)


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Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ann Miller: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 9:27 am)

re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ricer46: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 10:28 am)

re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ann Miller: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 10:51 am)

re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ricer46: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 10:56 am)

re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Ann Miller: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 11:24 am)

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