Must Press F1 to continue

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I have a computer that I just put a new hard drive into with fresh
install of Win XP home. It's an Intel board and the start up always
pauses after the messages that it's detected a keyboard and mouse and
usb. Then it pauses and just says press F1 to continue.
Pressing F1 makes it continue to start up normally.
I have reset the Bios values to defaults and tried to change several of
them, with not effect at all. If I unplug the keyboard it sometimes
skips the F1 pause.

The intel website has not proved helpful. They don't have any discussion
groups either.

Any ideas on how I could make it just start up without me pressing F1?

Jeff
 
You can try going to the bios and check the boot order of your hard drives,
make sure that system hard drive is listed first.
Try that.
 
I handn't thought of the battery.
Wouldn't it lose the date and time if the battery was dead?
 
Jeff said:
I have a computer that I just put a new hard drive into with fresh
install of Win XP home. It's an Intel board and the start up always
pauses after the messages that it's detected a keyboard and mouse and
usb. Then it pauses and just says press F1 to continue.
Pressing F1 makes it continue to start up normally.
I have reset the Bios values to defaults and tried to change several of
them, with not effect at all. If I unplug the keyboard it sometimes
skips the F1 pause.

The intel website has not proved helpful. They don't have any discussion
groups either.

Any ideas on how I could make it just start up without me pressing F1?

Jeff
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I had a computer that was doing that; not a new build, it just started
happening. What it ended up being was a dying hard drive. Once I replaced
the drive, everything was fine.

I know you said you just put in a new drive, but being new doesn't guarantee
anything. I've had plenty that were bad right out of the box.
 
When the F1 message comes up on an Intel board it usually
means that there is an error in the BIOS setup. I have to
assume that this is an older board because there is no setup
defaults in the newer boards. In the older board there is
a HDD detection, which if set to AUTO should work.
Intel recommends that if something is not used, it should be
disabled. i.e. com ports, parallel ports or whatever.
 
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