csnudelman
New Member
It used to be that when I booted or rebooted my computer it just started up by itself. Now, however, it requires that I press 'F1' to get it started. Ideas?
F1 to start Windows
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dragon2309
P.I Dragon
more info please, exact times of when F1 is needed, what OS, what computer, specs? what BIOS are you running on, what changes did you make to the system. Can you think of why F1 is important?
dragon
dragon
csnudelman
New Member
After restarting and going through it's paces I'm offered the choice of entering setup or continue with F1, XP Media, Dell XPS less than a year old, been doing this for several months and don't know/recall what changed it.
The_Other_One
VIP Member
Do you think you could tell us the error?
propagandhi
New Member
F1 Message
How about going into the bios with F2 or DEL or whatever it is on your dell and changing the startup boot process to load the hard disk first, make sure it isn't a sequence like "FLOPPY -> CDROM -> HDD0) or other similar, put the hard disk first. What you've described is most likely to be the BIOS saying "NO FLOPPY DRIVE" or other removable media - the F1 message is very common when a device is trying to be accessed during the boot process that doesnt exist. It could also be a keyboard or pointing device error, but try what I've suggested first.
How about going into the bios with F2 or DEL or whatever it is on your dell and changing the startup boot process to load the hard disk first, make sure it isn't a sequence like "FLOPPY -> CDROM -> HDD0) or other similar, put the hard disk first. What you've described is most likely to be the BIOS saying "NO FLOPPY DRIVE" or other removable media - the F1 message is very common when a device is trying to be accessed during the boot process that doesnt exist. It could also be a keyboard or pointing device error, but try what I've suggested first.