I currectly trying to fix a presitant problem on my computer. Often when i boot up my computer, it stops completely just before checking which drive to find the boot record. I reset with ctrl-alt-del and then it repeats and just freezes at the same place. If i shut it down for a 5 mins and then turn it back on it will boot correctly by searching the floppy,cdrom, then harddrive for boot record.
I just formatted my computer and this problem is even more occuring. Does my computer need a bios reset or update?
Please don't quote me on this, as I am an "intermediate" user, and not "advanced." However, when I had that problem before and had to do a reformat, others suggested that when I reformat, I use C: /mbr -- that way it would erase and recreate the master boot record. It seems like I did that and it worked. However, as I said before, please wait for input from more advanced users, as I can't guarantee that is what you need to do. Maybe one of them will have more thoughts along this line.
The command you're thinking of is "fixmbr", I would imagine. Just open a command prompt by going to "Run" and typing "cmd". That'll open a pseudo-DOS window.
Come to that, you could go to "Run" and type "fixmbr".
Personally, I have my boot sequence as "C only", coz I never boot from floppy and it speeds booting up, coz it doesn't search for the floppy. Easy enough to change it, should I ever need to boot from floppy, innit?
I hope it's OK to put that link, coz I often link to here, from there. (If that makes sense!)
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