Re: Booting up windows XP

From: RJ (jackbobNOSPAM_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/10/04


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:23:20 -0400

Do you have the latest BIOS installed?

It could be a hardware issue. You need to run a Full Diag on the
PC. See this MS KB article. It refers to Win9x/ME, but is probably
apropos for WinXP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287553

"UD" <UD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:985631D0-C37E-48FC-B10F-4A77C8FD30D1@microsoft.com...
> I need all the help I can get. I am running Win XP on a PIII PC . Every so
> often when I boot up my PC, I get a black screen and the following messege
> appears
>
> Verifying DMI Pool Data......
> Boot from ATAPI CD-Rom: Failure......
> Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter.
>
> I have two hard drives and on my PC. The master is setup in four
> partitions(NTSF). I have run the HD diagnostic program and the HD is fine.
> Win Xp is setup on my master drive. All my IDE cables are set correctly. I
> have also done a Win XP repair using the Win XP CD but this has not done the
> fix. My question is how do I fix this problem? Please help. Thank you
>
>



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