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press f1 on start up

bobbybluenose
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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:04PM

o/s xp pro when I boot up my pc I get press f1 to start or f2 to enter set up, can anyone tell me is f1 safe mode on xp, also how can i stop my pc from running in safe mode, i have tried going into bios and altering boot sequence to no evail

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:08PM

What it's almost certainly telling you is that the CMOS battery on your motherboard is dead. That means that e.g. the date and time have been set to whenever the mobo was built, and asking you to press F2 to set up is asking you to go into the BIOS to set the right date and time. You can ignore it and press F1, but that may give you problems down the line with a mismatch between what date/time your PC thinks it is (from the BIOS setting) and what date/time it really is. Replacing the CMOS battery is pretty straightforward - but if you don't fancy it, you'll just have to accept resetting the date/time in the BIOS each time you power the PC on.

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bobbybluenose

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:13PM

Thanks Ian I do not have to set the date and time on every boot up, but I will change the battery and see what happens i will post the results later thanks again bbn.

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:17PM

Not a dell computer is it.How old is it.

Maybe check in the Bios that the first boot is the hard drive.

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:23PM

Looks like you have had this problem before.

I take it that the problem is either back or it never went away.

Old thread

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:27PM

As a matter of interest did you go into the Bios and Disable the Floppy drive.

Maybe it is still trying to start with that instead of the hard drive.

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bobbybluenose

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 8:54PM

well it was the battery booting up ok now, just got the ongoing problem with msconfig .

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 9:38PM

You don't have TuneUp Utilities on your computer by any chance.

Does msconfig work in safe mode.

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 9:49PM

Did you run Malwarebytes or Hitman Pro if you only have Spybot I can see where you may get problems.

If you still have a virus that could be stopping msconfig from opening.

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 10:04PM

Or maybe have a try at this.

Fix msconfig

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Jock1e

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Posted January 12, 2013 at 10:09PM

And there is this have a read first but it does say it fixes msconfig problems.

msconfig fixer

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