Boot Fail After UPdated BIOS A7V133

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Peter Detheridge

While updating my bios I received a checksum error. The system then failed
to reboot into WindowsXP.
I was able to boot into DOS and reapplied the upadate successfully, but when
the reboot cycle gets to loading windows, I keep getting a message PRESS ANY
KEY TO REBOOT.

I have tried rebooting to Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT without any
success.

Any suggestions please?
 
Peter said:
While updating my bios I received a checksum error. The system then failed
to reboot into WindowsXP.
I was able to boot into DOS and reapplied the upadate successfully, but when
the reboot cycle gets to loading windows, I keep getting a message PRESS ANY
KEY TO REBOOT.

I have tried rebooting to Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT without any
success.

Any suggestions please?
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Your boot device config may be messed up, or maybe you forgot a
non-bootable floppy in the drive. "Press any key to reboot" may also
indicate that no active primary partition is present, check this via
TestDisk.

Stephan
 
Stephan,
of the few replies I received yours is closest to the mark.
It turned out that the primary partition from which the system boots up was
HIDDEN. I booted into Partitionmagic from floppy and immediately saw the
problem. I made it active again and hey presto back to normal!

Thanks for your help

Peter
 
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