weird message in a middle of computer start up.........?

Question

hi everyone
i have a dell dimension 3000, window xp, 160gb hd, cd rw, 1gb mem, 3 ghz.
now the problem i am having is when i start my computer i get this weird message
primary drive 1 not found!
secondary drive 1 not found!
strike the F1 key to continue
F2 to run the setup utility..
i need some help from all the computer geniuses out there. someone please please help me get rid of this message.
thank you in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 1

you have lost your bios setup. now this could be the battery as gone on the mother board and needs replacing.. it costs a couple of bucks to buy.

so what you do for the time being is press f2 and run the systems setup, on the first menu it should tell you what hard drive is in depending on the setup you have..
master HDD = should be set at auto
slave = cd rom drive should be set to cd rom
once it is set press Esc key goto save setting hit enter and reboot it should boot up, if it dose ok.. you will need to do that every time you boot the system up, until you get a bios battery

Answer 2

perhaps a prankster? we are approximately to rejoice Halloween, perhaps the television's providing you with a dry run. try searching for the consumer instruction manual and look a characteristic in terms of it. this may well be basically a characteristic wherein your television reflects inner counsel in a black field on your television show for 3-5 seconds whenever you alter the channel. it would desire to be the present time, channel call, or something. it would desire to have been activated. additionally, it would desire to be on of those imprecise closed captioning modes which you by risk became on (or somebody would desire to have), so make advantageous it quite is became off.