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December 29, 2006 at 10:32 AM
millhouselives

Must press F1 key to find hard drive on Dell 8100 listed in bios

by millhouselives . Updated 16 years ago

Hi,

I have a Dell Dimension 8100 and original hard drive crashed. Installed one that I have it is a quantum fireball 20gb.

Everything is OK, BUT, in order to access the hard drive on boot up I keep receiving a screen that ask me to either press F1 to continue or to press F2 for setup. In the setup bios screen it shows the harddrive listed as primary drive 0. It also shows the correct size and type. Next, if I hit the escape key to exit out of the bios screen, the computer will then boot to the windows 98 o.s. and all is well.

How do I avoid having to do this everytime I boot up the computer?

thanks for any help
Steve

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