As soon as I turn my computer on, this page now appears (it never did this before). For completeness, I am including everything on the page:
American Megatrends Released 05/15/02
AMBIOS (c) 2001 American Megatrends, Inc.
P4VMM2 Release 05/15/2002
Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU, 2 GHz
DEL: Setup F8: Boot Menu F12: Network Boot
Pri Slave- Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
Press F1 to Resume
(c) American Megatrends, Inc.,
62-0515-0011331-00101111-040201-VIA_P6-P4VMM2
The computer completely stops here until I hit the F1 key, and then Windows XP Pro, which I am running, starts up as it always has, and runs pretty normally. But this looks like a BIOS problem to me, not a Windows problem. Can you explain to me what is going on and what might have caused it, tell me whether or not I might be facing a total computer catastrophe, and advise me what, if anything, I can or should do about it. Thank you very much for any information you can offer.
2007-02-27
14:20:41
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wild_turkey_willie
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