Why do I have to press ESC to boot?

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Hi all!

After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the
boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or
F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why?
Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine...

My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks,
Janne

My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios
 
Hi all!

After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the
boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or
F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why?
Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine...

My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks,
Janne

My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios
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Incorrect BIOS setting I would think either in the Main BIOS or the
PCI controller card.
check the manual for the PCI card.



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Hi all!

After installing a new disc in my PC, it comes up with a message during the
boot-phase. It's something like "press ESC to resume or F1 to enter setup or
F3 to go to the previous page". Any idea why?
Pressing ESC makes it finish the boot and everything's fine...

My discs are connected via a separate Promise ATA/66-controller.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks,
Janne

My PC is a Gateway Plll 750, disc is Seagate Barracuda 120GB, Phoenix bios
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press F1, enter setup, save the (unchanged) settings.
I think that's just an oddly quirk of the Intel-Phoenix bios, in case
you wanted to change the boot drive.

Dave
 
press F1, enter setup, save the (unchanged) settings.
I think that's just an oddly quirk of the Intel-Phoenix bios, in case
you wanted to change the boot drive.

Dave
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I agree. But it might not be a bad idea to disable the primary
on-board controller...if nothing else is on it.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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Hi again!
Thanks for your tips. I've tried "everything"; using another Promise
IDE-controller (ATA/100 tx2), inboard disk-ctrlr, prevoius disk on all these
etc. All with the same result: just when the operating system is about to be
loaded , the system beeps twice, halts and comes up with the message:
Press ESC to resume F1 to enter setup F3 for previous page". It's very
annoying, even though pressing ESC makes everything work...

Thanks,
Janne
 
Hi again!
Thanks for your tips. I've tried "everything"; using another Promise
IDE-controller (ATA/100 tx2), inboard disk-ctrlr, prevoius disk on all these
etc. All with the same result: just when the operating system is about to be
loaded , the system beeps twice, halts and comes up with the message:
Press ESC to resume F1 to enter setup F3 for previous page". It's very
annoying, even though pressing ESC makes everything work...

Thanks,
Janne
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Did you also try reselecting the boot drive in the BIOS, THEN saving
it?


Dave
 
Hi Dave!

My boot drive is connnected to an IDE controlcard with its own bios. Because
of this the drive doesn't show up in the bios of the motherboard...
I've had this working for years, the problems I'm experiencing now is only
after installing the latest bios for the motherboard (and I can't revert
since I don't have the previous version anymore).

The board is a Tabor3, Intel 440BX chipset, Intel/Phoenix bios.

Thanks,
Janne
 
Hi Dave!

My boot drive is connnected to an IDE controlcard with its own bios. Because
of this the drive doesn't show up in the bios of the motherboard...
I've had this working for years, the problems I'm experiencing now is only
after installing the latest bios for the motherboard (and I can't revert
since I don't have the previous version anymore).

The board is a Tabor3, Intel 440BX chipset, Intel/Phoenix bios.

Thanks,
Janne
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IF changing the boot-drive settings and saving before exiting the bios
setup doesn't help, I don't know.

You might seek that last bios you had working OK. It should be an OEM
board, did you go to the OEM's website and seek an older BIOS?

You might also ask-around in a newsgroup dedicated to that OEM,
someone may have the bios you need.


Dave
 
Thanks for your responses everyone!
I found the problem by accident... To get better room when mounting a drive,
I removed my scsi-ctrl. Then I unintentially turned the power on - and
everything worked as it should! Seems like the scsi-controller (which has
worked fine for 3 years) did "something" to the system...

/Janne :-)
 
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