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Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

I go tmy computer from MDG, and when it starts, it diplays teh "intel Desktop Boards" pccture for a few seconds, and tehn begins loading XP

I have pressed escape but all that does is prevent the picture from loading

I REALLY need helping getting into the bios

Lobster · Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 01:18 Post subject:

Can MDG show you how to get into the Bios?

Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

I"m sceptical, i just went and tried to use teh start up floppy, but it just started with the message FREEDOS and nothing else (dos i mean)

Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

I just called the tech support, teh phone lines are currently down and are being redirected to finance :/ so i am going to try again tomorrow

Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

OK i got mixed succes
i found out how to get to t he bios and i cahnged it so taht it checks teh floppy first, cd second and HD last (it used to be 1 floppy 2 hd 3 cd)

But once i loaded it ( i let it load on default and it yelled alot at me about being unable to store my stteings because this as an ntfs drive) but once it finihsed o couldn't move my mouse :/

Lobster · Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 02:09 Post subject:

boot up from Puppy CD

press ctrl + alt + backspace
type the suggested command to change mouse

type xwin and press return

What sort of mouse are you telling it you have on boot up?

Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

all it asked me is whether or not is was a wheel mouse, which i said yes to (its connected to a usb port). But after it loaded it didn't work (the mouse)

Lobster · Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 02:44 Post subject:

use a ps2 mouse or try and unfathom this:

Cerberus · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 57

i'll worry about it tomorrow, i have to go to bed, and i got some of the people on IRC to help me, and now i am using an old PS/2 mouse and am typing this while using puppy Very Happy

NIght,t hanks for the help, i'l start work on the old ocmp this weekend, and that might bring its own set of problems...

anyway bye