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njerkovich · 08-27-2008, 04:33 PM

Don't know if you can help me but I recently installed vista on a computer which has nforce2 chipset, after realizing nvidia doesnt support nforce2 for vista anymore i formatted my partition then began to install xp pro. Everything installed fine until the computer went to reboot and now it hangs at the second screen into the boot after graphics card info it shows motherboard info then processor info then freezes. I cant press the delete key to get into bios i've tried all different key commands to get into bios on the motherboard website. No post beeps are going off. So basically how do I get into my bios to be able to boot from cd and delete my partition and create a new one with windows xp. I understand the HDD Drivers are differenent from vista to xp and thats what the problem is however i cant get into bio or even boot to cd for that matter... Am I going to need to buy a new hard drive?

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njerkovich Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 10 OS: xp	[moved from h/d's]Downgrade from vista to xp, hangs on boot hard drive problem Don't know if you can help me but I recently installed vista on a computer which has nforce2 chipset, after realizing nvidia doesnt support nforce2 for vista anymore i formatted my partition then began to install xp pro. Everything installed fine until the computer went to reboot and now it hangs at the second screen into the boot after graphics card info it shows motherboard info then processor info then freezes. I cant press the delete key to get into bios i've tried all different key commands to get into bios on the motherboard website. No post beeps are going off. So basically how do I get into my bios to be able to boot from cd and delete my partition and create a new one with windows xp. I understand the HDD Drivers are differenent from vista to xp and thats what the problem is however i cant get into bio or even boot to cd for that matter... Am I going to need to buy a new hard drive?