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F8-KEY DOES NOT WORK

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by europanorama 1 view

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we have a problem accessing disk on a pII. no system .... this happened when we could not put off the pc with button. we just unplugged.
now i tried entering does prompt via f8-key(fdisk /mbr and sys c: command using a bootdisk). this did not work. why?
is this normal? eventually our bootdisk was defective. we did this work outside and my friend who was responsible for this repair did not make a bootdisk!
the original problem was a nonfunctional printer. i then unplugged all unnecessary cards, yes even an agp-video(there is onboard-video). my friend pull out a bit this card when working on the others without knowing. this one did not work again in that machine... he even mounted an extra soundcard although there was one onboard. he did not know how to find/install the board-driver. btw: the printer is now working. a second person had rebuilt this pc....3 persons on a pc= chaos totale!
in printer-section there was a com1-connection instead of lpt1! and we have tried out all bios-settings. network-card was blocking irq 7(normally 10). i could change this.

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by fred07

First, you must hold power button for 5 or more seconds for the shutdown.
Second, you can download a boot disk from bootdisk.com
Third, you can download the MB drivers from the MB mfg website.
Forth, you must disable onboard video and sound whenadding either card.
Fifth, enable escd in bios just before leaving as it will assign irq.
Hope this helps.

by tecmastertim

F4 is the key for toggling between MS-DOS & Win 98 boot-up. F8 is for a step by stepboot executing one line at a time in the AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS files. The boot keys can be turned on & off with an entry in the MSDOS.SYS file. The MSDOS.SYS file is part of the boot records and is hidden. To unhide at the MS-DOS prompt type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ATTRIB -R -S -H c:\MSDOS.SYS this is done using the ATTRIB.EXE file found in the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. After removing the readonly, system and hidden attributes with attrib, you will be able to edit the file with editor you choose. The commands to add are : BootKeys=1 BootMenu=1 you can even add BootMenuDelay=30 to make the menu pause for 30seconds before continuing with the boot-up. With these commands, 1 means ON & 0 means OFF Add these commands under the BootMulti=1 & BootGUI=1 commands BootGUI=0 will boot to DOS & 1 for windowsCreate a boot-disk with SYS A: then COPY C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD\*.* A: EBD contains all boot-floppy files. Hope this Helps, Tim Cade-TEC Advantage Inc.

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