- Stopping at "F1 to continue, DEL to enter setup
- Posted by accessdumbo on November 12th, 2005
After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to continue....
istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass this?
- Posted by Mr Mike on November 13th, 2005
You have to go into the bios and upgrade the memory settings it might still
have the old memory settings in the bios
"accessdumbo" wrote:
> After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to continue....
> istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass this?
- Posted by Richard in AZ on November 13th, 2005
You don't give a lot of information for this group to help, but sounds like
your BIOS wants you to go and tell it that you have changed the amount of
RAM. Or, your CMOS battery is dying and the BIOS cannot remember the last
settings.
What happens when you press F1?
Have you looked at the BIOS settings to see if the RAM amount is correct?
"accessdumbo" <accessdumbo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD659C88-31B7-449C-B857-A58090554196@microsoft.com...
> After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to
> continue....
> istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass this?
- Posted by ikethepug on November 13th, 2005
Cannot start Windows XP. Got the same message (I can go to F1 or F12) but
didn't change RAM; PC is 4 months old!!! What gives???? Is it virus related?
any advice much appreciated.
"Richard in AZ" wrote:
> You don't give a lot of information for this group to help, but sounds like
> your BIOS wants you to go and tell it that you have changed the amount of
> RAM. Or, your CMOS battery is dying and the BIOS cannot remember the last
> settings.
>
> What happens when you press F1?
> Have you looked at the BIOS settings to see if the RAM amount is correct?
>
> "accessdumbo" <accessdumbo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AD659C88-31B7-449C-B857-A58090554196@microsoft.com...
> > After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to
> > continue....
> > istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass this?
>
>
>
- Posted by Jim on November 13th, 2005
"ikethepug" <ikethepug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A4D1205-D3BD-49DE-BA51-AB0E569201A6@microsoft.com...
> Cannot start Windows XP. Got the same message (I can go to F1 or F12) but
> didn't change RAM; PC is 4 months old!!! What gives???? Is it virus
> related?
> any advice much appreciated.
RAM goes bad when it goes bad. Age has nothing to do with this event. I
would suspect defective RAM or defective BIOS battery.
Your system should still be under warranty. Why don't you ask the
manufacturer first?
Jim
>
> "Richard in AZ" wrote:
>
>> You don't give a lot of information for this group to help, but sounds
>> like
>> your BIOS wants you to go and tell it that you have changed the amount of
>> RAM. Or, your CMOS battery is dying and the BIOS cannot remember the
>> last
>> settings.
>>
>> What happens when you press F1?
>> Have you looked at the BIOS settings to see if the RAM amount is correct?
>>
>> "accessdumbo" <accessdumbo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AD659C88-31B7-449C-B857-A58090554196@microsoft.com...
>> > After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to
>> > continue....
>> > istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass
>> > this?
>>
>>
>>
- Posted by accessdumbo on November 14th, 2005
"ikethepug" wrote:
> Cannot start Windows XP. Got the same message (I can go to F1 or F12) but
> didn't change RAM; PC is 4 months old!!! What gives???? Is it virus related?
> any advice much appreciated.
>
> "Richard in AZ" wrote:
>
> > You don't give a lot of information for this group to help, but sounds like
> > your BIOS wants you to go and tell it that you have changed the amount of
> > RAM. Or, your CMOS battery is dying and the BIOS cannot remember the last
> > settings.
> >
> > What happens when you press F1?
> > Have you looked at the BIOS settings to see if the RAM amount is correct?
> >
> > "accessdumbo" <accessdumbo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:AD659C88-31B7-449C-B857-A58090554196@microsoft.com...
> > > After upgrading ram on AWARD BIOS machine, system stops at F1 to
> > > continue....
> > > istead of continuing the boot. How can I get the system to bypass this?
> >
> >
> > TA for that, turned out the floppy was disconnected and it halted to look for it.
