Topic: cannot boot my computer

[tiff27]

I cannot boot my computer. Whenever it starts up it goes to a black screen that says press <F1> for setup <ESC>to boot and <F2> for option rom screen. If I press <esc> to boot, it then ask me for a password. After pressing enter several times it will then say password failure, system halted ! I have never set a password to this computer and never had this problem before. What could this be ?

[Dack]

Hello and

Could be several things but sounds like your bios has been altered - whet happens when you select F1 to go into the bios.

If you check the time and date and see if they look correct, you should also check to see what hard drives you have available and whether any of the security option have been enabled e.g. password on boot

[joudi]

Hi tiff27 and welcome to PC Pals,

Till a proper techie shows here, I may propose that you provide some more information about your PC and your OS.

Could be useful too to tell us if your problem started to appear after certain action from your side, like installing or uninstalling certain program, or any other event which happened.

I thought too of a possibility of (maybe) you've forgotten a floppy or a CD in one of the drives. If so, you can remove it first and restart.