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Laptop won`t start. Says press F2 or F12

Paull (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 17th August 2006, 07:23

We have a laptop that won`t start. It says press F2 or F12. It worked ok until yesterday then when it turns on it just goes to F2 or F12. It waits for a few seconds then turns off & restarts again onto F2 or F12. Any ideas.

The laptop belongs to a student who doesn`t have the XP disk with her. Can I do a repair using my XP disk, if that is needed?

This item was edited on Thursday, 17th August 2006, 08:48

RE: Laptop won`t start. Says press F2 or F12

sashenden (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 17th August 2006, 08:10

Sounds more like a hardware fault than a windows issue. If you can get to them just remove and reseat the hard drive and memory module. Memeory is normally under a cover on the bottom of the machine and hard drive will be underneath or on the side.

RE: Laptop won`t start. Says press F2 or F12

Paull (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 17th August 2006, 08:23

I`ve taken out both memory & hard drive. I`ve reseated them firmly, but still only goes as far as F2 for setup or F12. to display boot menu

RE: Laptop won`t start. Says press F2 or F12

MikeElliot (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 17th August 2006, 10:49

Well the laptop is not booting because the hard disc is corrupt or there is a bootable floppy disc or CD/DVD inserted. If you have no bootable discs (other than hard disc) then a Repair Install should fix it.

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