My machine has decided to go haywire. It boots up eventually, like maybe 10 - 15 minutes, but seems to be trying to boot up from the cd-rw drive. I used to be able to check this, but I forget how to.

Could someone help? Thanks.

go fucking peel a potato ya mick

ok, click F2 on bootup, go into your BIOS and check the bootable device options and see what order it is set up in

No, no, no. It's spud, not potato. Fuckin yanks!

Thank you Jerry, worked a treat.


*edit

Hmmmm, it didn't quite work as well I at first thought. I've a feeling it's more of a hardware issue


What happens is, on boot up the cd-rw drive gives a whirr then stops. It maybe does this a dozen times. The machine doesn't boot up immediately. It does so after about 5 minutes of this burring and stopping. It's driving me mental.

disconnect your cd drives power cable, then try booting up and see if it boots ok.

I tried it, it didn't work. So it must be the fuckin hard drive. Fuckin thing!

stop. watching. p0rn.

I'm not the one who logs in to redtube every day. Eh?

I have no reason for it now, friend.

Snap!

get a mac

Nope, absolutely not.

This really does suck!!!!!

i like to think you've checked, but you don't happen to have a cd in the drive right?

Nope, there wasn't. I don't think it's that now at all. It's the hard drive. I checked the BIOS and everything is set correctly. It just sounds as if it's stuck, if that makes sense. Then after a while it boots up ok. Sometimes it'll cut out whilst it's loading up the windows XP screen.

Now I'm really confused. I went to rip a cd to my comp, and it cut out and rebooted.

Look for the power supply, it happened to me with the same kind of symptoms. The PC booted, loaded the Os and then rebooted as if i've pushed the reset button. You'd better check this item before the crashes damage your HD