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by hellfried

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i recently got a new computer running
windows me with 256 SDRAM. for the 1st
one week the boot up was real smooth but
towards the end of the 2nd week i keep
getting this irritating screen half way
through the process which says that the
computer has detected all my hard
drives, cd rom, keyboard etc. and at the
end, to continue, i will be asked to
press F1. after doing that everything is
back to normal and i get into windows
me. how did this come about and what can
i do to disable this screen permanently?

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by pesk

Without having examined the problem in-depth, this sounds very much like BIOS related problem (or not, as the case may be). Check if you have recently changed anything with effect to BIOS settings. There is normally a setting in the first page of most new BIOS screens that ask the computer to stop and request the F1 key to be pressed should any problem be detected. This normally occurs with keyboard or floppy drive failure. Second point, find out the proper hardware configuration and make sure that it is properly installed, using the manufacturers own CD's.

by patrick.scalise

Try going to Microsofts windows update page and downloading the critical patches.. will take about and hour. I had the same problem and after downloading the patches I haven't had any problems. Since then I check about once a week for any new patches.
Good Luck
Pat

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