Apr
I wanted to reformat back to factory settings, so i clicked use default settings in the bios options. When booting now, I get to the loading windows screen and all of a sudden a blue screen flashes and the personal restarts..
My pc came with vista pre-installed, No vista disk no backup disk nothing!.. What am I supposed to do now? Does any 1 know what my bios settings are supposed to be?
I heard that windows is not starting because its not finding any of my drivers. So clicking use default settings has really screwed me over
Its a Packard Bell
Dual Core Pentium
Geforce Card
Vista Home Premium
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Guys, for those of you that are not aware, the new XP and Vista machines don’t come with discs and for others amongst you that are unhappy that Hayley has messed with the bios, please be aware that the newer install options require you to press either the F3 or F4 key to enter a bios style restore. We have many of these machines at work. The image is stored on a hidden partition on the drive.
Right Hayley from what you have stated below it sounds that you’ve attempted to do the system restore and something has gone wrong.
Can we just identify if the graphics card you’ve was with the PC when you bought it or separate.
If it is separate then i would as suggested carefully open the bios and look for the graphics settings and ensue that your pc is set to boot from PCI graphics.
I cant however see why this is causing you issues with the Blue Screen oF Death. You usually get this when something is conflicting.
What i would suggest is that you get your user manual out and this will tell ou how to perform a re store of your operating system. It could be that it has not restored correctly and that it is corrupting something when it is booting.
Another option is to press the F8 key each 2 seconds or so when your Computer is booting. This should give you a few options and one will be safe mode. If you boot in to safe mode and it looks ok, close down and try to boot in to normal windows.
And finally i would advocate that you perform the system restore, however be warned that by doing this any files you’ve on your Personal computer will be lost as the system will wipe the hard drive before restoring the op system.
If you’ve any more issues clubsceneuk2@yahoo.co.uk and i will do my best to help.
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hmm…im not too sure hayley…i really do wish i cud help…umm..y dont you get a computer fixer expert of someone good with this stuff?? a lot of crazy things happened to my computer too in the past few weeks….and thats wat i did! i'm sure they can tell you how to go about getting ur comp back to normal in no time!
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If you bought your pc new it would have come with a vista disk. I know that's no help if you purchased it second hand, but other than that i am lost sorry.
Learn from this though…always make a back up!
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Unless you've backed up your files i'm afraid your stuck!
Sounds like your drives have been wiped of all information to begin up your pc, try sending it back to Packard Bell and get it sorted.
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To be perfectly blunt, what the hell were you doing in there in the first place? You don't reset back to factory settings in the BIOS. Your OS back up is in a partition on the C: drive.
Computers don’t come with discs now and your supposed to make a full set from that partition when you first get your personal.
Do you mean to state that you changed things in the BIOS without even making a single note of what you were altering and the default setting it was at?
We’ve no idea what your settings are as they’re set up for individual computers.
Your only course of action now is to take it into a computer repair shop and let them sort it out and hope and pray you haven't screwed your BIOS chip up or it's going to cost you a new motherboard.
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Oh boy. Ok, so I won't go into why you should not mess with BIOS unless you know what you are doing; because you now know why. Why your personal won’t boot will have nothing to do with BIOS and especially not drivers. Buy now you’ve to restore BIOS to get back to where you were to figure out what the problem was. Here's the good news; you can't break a computer by changing the BIOS settings unless you change timing or clock values, so don't do that. So, try changing some of the basic configuration settings and see if that improves things. I would start with the video. Since you have a GeForce card installed, the video in the BIOS must be set to on-board disable and to accept the AGP video support slot. Also, make sure the BIOS identifies the hard drive by CHECKING it. Change nothing. If BIOS sees a hard drive it will give you basic info about the drive. This does not mean the the drive is Windows bootable, just that the computer knows it has one. If you don't have any luck with messing with BIOS, try contacting the maker with you model number to see if they can get you the BIOS configuration. You did not break your computer, but correcting this isn’t really going to be all that much fun. It's important to remember that you mustn’t change any number values while in BIOS. Doing so might cause physical damage to the personal. Changing options from a list won’t harm the computer, in most cases. You might also want to be sure that your internal fans are clear of debris. This might be the reason the personal didn’t boot in the first place. An overheated computer behaves like a spoiled rotten child. Fear not, you'll get trough this.