Computer not booting up ?

[maroondevo52]

It's a Dell, turn it on and the booting screen comes on then stops about a third the way along the bar, have pushed all keys and nothing changes, can anyone help.

[royalscot]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/support/nostart.mspx

 

Try this Scott

[maroondevo52]

Hi,

 

Thanks for that, seemed to have been a problem with the printer, my son unplugged it from the modem and hey presto !!!

[royalscot]

Same happens to me when i boot up with an external hard drive attached , good win today

[maroondevo52]

Yes, always enjoy a goal in the last couple of minutes

[dx100uk]

make sure the external HDD's power supply is working

 

if you are connecting via USB then its dragging the %volt line of the USB down , hence stopping the PC booting.

 

else you've go the boot order set to ext USB first in the bios.

 

dx

[Ell-enn]

My son has a £2 bet on the football every Saturday and he was just waiting for Hearts to score to win £30 (don't know what the other teams in the bet were, just know he jumped for joy when they scored).

[maroondevo52]

Good stuff Ell-enn, glad I'm not the only one with faith in the 'Jambos' He'll be getting you something nice, then.

 

Thanks for that dx, you know me, not got a scooby when it comes to computers, whilst I'm here see when you've got e-mail set up on your computer and on your Laptop does the same mail come to both.

I'm going to set up e-mail on my Laptop and just wondered

[dx100uk]

if you mean via outlook?

one will suck the mail off and delete it from your ISP's server

 

unless you set outlook NOT to delete the mail at server end

 

but then you server mailbox will become full after about i month and stop.

 

up to you.

 

dx

[SOD'EM]

Or you could just make a new email address (not Outlook) for free. Googlemail, Hotmail etc. The former being my preferred one. You can then access your email from any computer/laptop in the world. You just have to make sure that if you do use another system, to make sure that you click on 'Never remember my password from this computer'.

[dx100uk]

or ofcourse if your isp supports it use IMAP

instead of POP

[bargainhunter]

Yes, sometimes USB devices can cause this, but ould also pont to a wiring issue on a self build machine