big computer problem help

[tony404]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Step 1: Can you get into your bios setup options?

yes and it does thru the process right up til it would boot to xp

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by tony404

yes and it does thru the process right up til it would boot to xp

You can check the battery like Jace said, but the fact that it appears to be loading the bios and that you can get into the edit options sounds like the battery is probably ok. Don't know what all the battery controls nowadays, last time I had to screw with one was just for the clock.

This could be a hardware prob, you should try to see if you can get in using safe mode imho.

Edited: hardware should be harddrive

[Jace]

Originally Posted by sarettah

You can check the battery like Jace said, but the fact that it appears to be loading the bios and that you can get into the edit options sounds like the battery is probably ok. Don't know what all the battery controls nowadays, last time I had to screw with one was just for the clock.

This could be a hardware prob, you should try to see if you can get in using safe mode imho.

Edited: hardware should be harddrive

yeah, I didn't know he actually could get into the bios

question, if it says it can't find bios, how are you getting into the bios?

did you mean can't find operating system?

if so, then yeah, your drive crapped out

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by tony404

yes and it does thru the process right up til it would boot to xp

Another thing to do is to go into the bios setup and make sure all your parameters look right. The hard drive settings, memory, etc.. If it reset to default some how, you might have to reset it up.

[tony404]

Thanks waiting 5 mins for the battery then will try next thing. Hopefully its just c drive crapped out.