My computer lost everything on a restart and wants the cd to reboot.This happened when it was 3 days old.phone call to tech and somehow with a few key strokes the system rebooted within its self?? How do i do it again??
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There are Various(different) Methods to Reboot Your Computer
1.) Click "Start," then "Turn Off Computer," then "Restart." else
2.) Press "Ctrl," "Alt" and "Delete" simultaneously. Then click "Shut Down" and select "Restart."
3.) Press and hold the power key. Most systems will power down after about five seconds. This will force a hard power down. This method does not give hardware in the system, such as hard drives, a warning that power will be lost, so it is not graceful and should only be done if the above methods did not work.
4.) Unplug your computer and plug it in. And turn on the computer. This will also make force a hard power down, "Make sure that if the other command/option did not work (function)" so you should only do it if other methods did not work.
Reboot Using a CD or DVD
1.) Place "insert" the CD or DVD into the disc drive of your system (e.g E:,F: or G:) that you have.
2.) Restart your computer using any of the methods listed under "Various Methods to Reboot Your Computer."
3.) When prompted, press any key to boot the computer using the CD.
4.) Contact your computer's manufacturer if this does not work, and make sure that the CD or DVD is good. If not it will not work "Cannot run for booting" or computer may not be set up correctly, and various troubleshooting methods are required to figure out what is not working.
Else if you want to Reboot Your Computer into Safe Mode
Here are the step to run in a "safe mode"
1.) Turn off your computer and Wait for few seconds.
2.) Restart your computer.
3.) Start tapping the "F8" key for a while and wait till the "windows advanced option" menu appear.
4.) When the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" appears, select "Safe Mode" using the arrow keys on your computer and press "Enter" key in your keyboard.
Instead of installing Windows XP every time, you can just restore your boot sector in the Windows XP Recovery Console. Here's how to get to the Recovery Console:
1. Put your Windows XP CD into your computer. Restart your computer and boot into the CD (a message should display "Press Any Key to Boot" or something similar). If you cannot boot into the CD, you will need to adjust your BIOS setting to use the CD drive as the first boot priority.
2. After the CD is finished loading, press "R" to go into the Recovery Console.
3. When prompted, enter the administrator password. If there's no password, just hit enter
4. Then enter "fixboot [drive]" (without quotations) where [drive] is the hard drive Windows XP is installed.
For example: fixboot c:
5. Type "exit" and Enter to escape the Recovery Console and restart your computer
The problem to this solution is NOT TO BUY this phone! I bought this phone 6 months ago for my son & we are going on our third phone because of this exact problem. It power cycles constantly and is completely inoperable. Unfortunately Sprint has a policy that you cannot replace a phone with a different model unless you have replaced it 3 times. Unacceptable! As a customer, you have to manually replace your numbers..lose all of your photos? This is not okay! I have been a customer for 12 years. I'm starting to question the integrity of the company..Toyota all over again.
The above message is mainly informational and doesn't necessarily indicate a problem. The acronym 'PXE' stands for Preboot Execution Environment. It's an environment to bootstrap computers using a network interface card. Usually the reboot is done by a remote computer on a LAN (Local rea Network). The Realtek NIC (Network Interface Card) somehow expected a PXE boot to be taking place when the computer was restarting. One solution is to restart the computer and go to the boot menu (F2 on some systems) and choose to boot from the master drive.
remove the card, get the old drivers for the motherboard and reinstall them, then see if you can get the system running, if the problem continues to reboot every time you are going to have to reset the motherboard this means shorting out the bios and setting everything back to manufacture orignal setting, before doing this go in to bois and write down everything on the type of drive and all the information on that line
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how the systems boots firsat hd, dvd, cd, floppy
on the motherboard is a sitch 1-3, most of the time it is on 1-2, you need to move the switch 2-3 for a few seconds and move back to 1-2, reboot
go into cmos
set up everything the way it was before you reset the system everything should work fine
reinstall the video card and drivers
disabling old drivers
I had the exact same problem!! Drove me crazy for days. Couldn't find any answers online, contacted Gateway tech support and they told me my warranty was expired but they'd be happy to discuss my issue for $2 per minute. Gateway can **** it!!
At first I thought the problem might be a malfunctioning NVIDIA card, a problem with my DVI cable, or the monitor itself. But, after turning off the computer, unplugging the DVI cable, replugging the DVI cable and restarting the computer, I noticed I could get the firmware flash screen to show, including the BIOS menu boot and the Gateway system reinstall screen to show. As soon as the Windows flash logo would display, however, the monitor would drop out and display the dreaded "No Signal" error.
This indicated the problem was a software one and not hardware! The cable, monitor and video card were all working fine. Then I remembered that Windows installed its automatic update a few days prior. In fact...
THE PROBLEM TURNED OUT TO BE A WINDOWS UPDATE INSTALLED A FEW DAYS PRIOR.
After succesfully booting into safe mode (F8 during the flash/bootup screens), I went to Add or Remove programs in the control panel, clicked on the "Show Updates" box on the top, and uninstalled the Windows update from a few days prior to the occurance of the error. After a reboot the problem was solved.
I hope this will help anybody else struggling with this error!
After much thrashing, here is the solution to the problem.Somehow the printer drivers lost coordination
with the corresponding Windows supporting programs.You would think that reinstalling the printer
drivers would fix the problem, AND IT DOES, but there are 3 tricks:
·Uninstall everything associated with this
printer with the install disk in the
computer (this may really not be necessary, but it worked for me).[This is also the solution when the a window
comes up asking for TrayApp to be inserted using a disk—they mean the hp
install disk].
·After the un-install, MAKE SURE you ALSO delete the printer using the control panel.This is critical.If this doesn’t happen, the corresponding
Windows software is somehow hooked to the wrong thing when the reinstall
happens. Then reboot the system. ·Install the new drivers with the printer off, and the USB disconnected
from the printer.Reboot the system [not
sure the reboot is necessary].After the
computer has booted, connect the USB, and power up the printer.The computer will recognize the printer and
put the printer icon in the Control Panel.
It turns out that correcting the driver mis-coordination by
BOTH uninstalling the printer drivers and
taking the printer out of the control panel, then properly reinstalling
solves BOTH the fax problem, and the protection fault problem!Amazing such a little thing can make such a
difference!
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