Please can you tell me which drivers I need!

angelcake

Ok, I will try and enter the bios first, by doing this I need to push F2 and a blue screen comes up, do I need to select the boot sequence here or is that wrong? or how do I do it please? thanks

angelcake

sorry I am not that clear am I! I mean how do I set it to defaults please

John_0771

Look at the bottom of the setup screen there should be a F key which says F(blah) Restore Setup defaults

angelcake

ok will do that now, thank you

angelcake

There was no F option anywhere!

It as all enter, esc etc....

I don't really open it up unless I really have to but do you think this could be the problem?

also the fact that when you have to push F1 it directs you to a black screen with the wrtiting to select windows - gives you 2 exactly the same titles, the first one brings you into windows properly and if you select the second one it says error or something like that! - would this be causing the problem - like there is 2 windows its trying to load! sorry if this is brief, I am going off memory of what it says and I am no expert with computers! lol

John_0771

The advice i was giving was for ' No bootable devices - strike f1 to ret boot f2 for setup', your second problem with the 2 windows titles basicly is there because you didnt format the drive properly when you reinstalled to get rid of it you need to go on my computer C: then open boot.ini and remove the second boot option entry then save and reboot

angelcake

sorry I had to edit the post before as I got it wrong. It was my sister that formatted the computer so what would she need to do? would it need to be formatted again?

angelcake

sorry just seen what you put! will try that now. thanks

angelcake

sorry, I have made the files unhidden and done a search for Boot.ini but it can't find it.

Tried finding it through start> Run> C:\ boot.ini and it came up with a notepad and this

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Is that any good?

John_0771

IF you said you select the first option and you boot up ok then change it to this:

[php][boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
[/php]