Boot Fail After UPdated BIOS A7V133

While updating my bios I received a checksum error. The system then failed
to reboot into WindowsXP.
I was able to boot into DOS and reapplied the upadate successfully, but when
the reboot cycle gets to loading windows, I keep getting a message PRESS ANY
KEY TO REBOOT.

I have tried rebooting to Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT without any
success.

Any suggestions please?

Peter Detheridge schrieb:

While updating my bios I received a checksum error. The system then failed
to reboot into WindowsXP.
I was able to boot into DOS and reapplied the upadate successfully, but when
the reboot cycle gets to loading windows, I keep getting a message PRESS ANY
KEY TO REBOOT.

I have tried rebooting to Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT without any
success.

Any suggestions please?

Your boot device config may be messed up, or maybe you forgot a
non-bootable floppy in the drive. "Press any key to reboot" may also
indicate that no active primary partition is present, check this via
TestDisk.

Stephan
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Stephan,
of the few replies I received yours is closest to the mark.
It turned out that the primary partition from which the system boots up was
HIDDEN. I booted into Partitionmagic from floppy and immediately saw the
problem. I made it active again and hey presto back to normal!

Thanks for your help

Peter
"Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message
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Peter Detheridge schrieb:

While updating my bios I received a checksum error. The system then
failed
to reboot into WindowsXP.
I was able to boot into DOS and reapplied the upadate successfully, but
when
the reboot cycle gets to loading windows, I keep getting a message PRESS
ANY
KEY TO REBOOT.

I have tried rebooting to Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT without any
success.

Any suggestions please?

Your boot device config may be messed up, or maybe you forgot a
non-bootable floppy in the drive. "Press any key to reboot" may also
indicate that no active primary partition is present, check this via
TestDisk.

Stephan
--
Home: http://stephan.win31.de/ | Webm.: http://www.i24.com/
PC#6: i440BX, 2xCel300A, 512 MiB, 18 GB, ATI AGP 32 MiB, 110W
This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer
Reply to newsgroup only. | See home page for working e-mail address.