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Old 11-30-2008, 09:28 AM   #3 (permalink)
Dodgeboyy
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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OS: Windows XP


Re: Gateway Laptop won't start windows XP

No I can not get into the Bios. I did manage to open windows last night by unplugging the power cord and taking out the battery, then holding the power switch down for 30 sec. Install the battery turm the unit on and tapping the f8 key. I then reformatted the hard drive and installed a new clean windows xp on it with the drivers. When I finished with that I installed Microsoft works on it, then when that finished it asked if I wanted to restart now or later. I said now and it went into a restart. Before it restarted I got this error message, which I failed to write down tell me that a file was missing or corruped to reinstall. I will attempt to get this thing rebooted later to see if this message will come back up.
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