When I start up my computer first it asks me press F1 to continue after that. It goes to the windows XP loading screen, after it finishes loading it goes to a black screen for about five minutes. I dont really understand because it didnt do that before. anybodyknow what is happening?
2007-05-07 03:42:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
The 'Press F1 to continue" message is a result of an error caused as the BIOS does its hardware checks during the boot process.
The BIOS boot process (bootstrap) preceeds the loading of the operating system.
The most amusing example of this occurs if you unplug a ps2 keyboard,
1, it generates the error
2, pressing F1 does no good because the keyboard is not plugged in.
3, if its ps2, you will need to do a hardware reset after plugging the keyboard in again.
The bios can be set to 'halt on'
'no errors' which will stop the error message appearing.
'keyboard errors' see above
'all errors' any hardware failure detected by the bios will halt the boot process and give the above message.
2007-05-07 03:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mac Pro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not seeing something in the hardware, that is why you have to press the F1 key (to get by that error). The hardware problem is preventing Windows from completely loading, which is why you only get the black screen.
Are there any other messages before the Press F1 screen?
2007-05-07 10:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first guess would be that the battery is possibly dead on your motherboard. Next guess would be chassis intrusion detection, but I'm guessing the message would be pretty obvious and you wouldn't be asking here. Do you know if the system time is continually being reset? Other than that, I would need to know more about the BIOS message screen prior to the "press F1 to continue" prompt.
2007-05-07 10:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋