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Re: Computer will not go beyond BIOS Setup

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by caillou

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I used a drive scrubber to clean my hard drive and it appears that it worked ok. So now nothing is left on the harddrive. The Monitor keeps going to PRESS DEL TO ENTER SETUP. Once I enter the setup and scroll through the various requirements then pres EXIT SETUP, it starts all over again. It has been doing this for weeks and weeks now. I have tried every suggested solution I could find on the net but nothing works. I beginning to think no one can tell me what to do with it so I am almost at the point of throwing the machine on the garbage heap. I'll try once more. Is there anyone out there who can offer a solution. I would greatly appreciate it. I took a digital photo of the Monitor as it is now. But I was unable to figure out how to upload it to here.

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by bizzo

If you have nothing on your harddrive, and you're not booting to CD or anything, then it will keep going back to the bios for you to select a boot device.

Try installing an OS on your harddrive.

by 1bn0

There is nothing left on your hard drive. No data and no Operating System.

You need the instalation media for an OS and you need to configure your BIOS to boot from the instllation media.

In the BIOS the setting is likely refred to as the "Boot Order".

Follow the on screen instrucitons to enable/disable devices and to move them up or down in the list.

If you select
Floppy
CD/DVDROM
HDD
in that order.

The computer will try to boot from the floppy first. If there is no floppy disk or the floppy does not contain the required boot files it will time out and attempt to boot from the next device on the list. The CD/DVD-ROM.

Again the BIOS will attempt to load the boot files from the CD/DVD disk. If the boot files are not there(non-bootable disk) or there is no disk in the drivethen it will continue on to attempt to boot from the Hard Drive.

Save the setting in your BIOS and exit the BIOS setup utility.

Place your installation media in the appropriate drive device and reboot.

by caillou

I really appreciate all of your comments. I am certainly aware that the hd is totally clean. I have gone through all the steps required for BOIS Setup and made the exit as was indicated on the monitor. Up to yesterday, after exit it has just been going around the circle again and again and everything is repeated over and over without performing the actual setup. Yesterday I managed to get it to enter windows setup and install the files and drivers. This took several minutes. Everything seemed to be progressing well. I was beginning to feel good about it. Then on the monitor came the words "To Install Windows XP press enter. I did that and nothing happend. After several hours of nothing happening I restarted the computer and surprise, surprise, I was right back where I started from. "Press Del to Enter Setup." For the 100th. time I did that. And from there on it just kept going around that circle again and again and again for hundreds of times. And it is still doing that. The monitor still shows "Press Del To Enter Setup." And no matter what I do it comes back to that point again. Any answers anyone?
P.S. For anyone wanting to help me on this, I will let you know where it stands now. I just now got the computer to enter Windows XP Setup. Again it seemed to progress well. But is now stalled with the following info.(on a blue screen) on the monitor: "A problem was detected & Windows is shut down to prevent damage to computer. If this is the first time you have seen this stop error restart your computer. Check for adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the stop message disable or check with manufacturer. Try changing video adaptors. Check with hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS Memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart computer and press F-8 to select Advanced Start-up Options and then select safe mode.
Technical Information = Stop 0X0000008E, 0X C0000005, OXF74BB9A8, 0X6EFE75c, 0X00000000,setupdd.sys addess F-74BB9A8 base at F7494000, date stamp 41107c8f."
Can anyone give me any advice re all this?

by sue t

the hard drive utilities from the manufacturers website and reformat the hard drive using those utilities. maybe drive scrubber did something or maybe you have a bad hard drive so I would also use those utilities to test the hard drive.

by caillou

Again many thanks for all the help. I am at this stage now. It started to install Windows XP yesterday, loaded all the files to the point of 'Installing Windows XP" and stopped with the following error: """8064 MB Disk O at Id O on bus O on atapi - Setup cannot access this disk.""""" Any further advice from anyone. I seem to be getting a few steps along the way to getting this machine going again.

by thumbsup2

Use the manufacturer's tools to test the drive, as explained previously.

If that doesn't work, it certainly sounds as if the drive is toast.

What kinds of problems were you having that prompted you to use a drive scrubber in the first place? Perhaps there is a clue here that you've overlooked.

by older mycroft

So I'm with ThumbsUp2 on this.

If any disk was likely to be showing signs of age (not to mention wear and tear) it's got to be an 8GB hard drive, for sure. ;)

by caillou

Thank you for your response. The computer was badly infected with spyware virus. While trying to rid it of the virus it shut down and I could find no one who could tell me how to get it to respond again. So I purchased a drive scrubber and cleaned the hard drive. And as you have read my posts, you know where I am with it now. I've been in contact with Microsoft and they feel they can help me. But any further help from here would also be much appreciated.

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