[pchelpers] Re: Computer won't boot

Jo
Again if we knew the brand we could tell you the key to get into BIOS, I 
would try the following
DEL
F2
CTRL+ALT+DEL
those are the most common
Compaq uses F11
continue to reboot trying the above one at a time till you get in 
Windows does not repair the BIOS that is done by flashing with a floppy 
or bootable CD since you did neither you did not change the BIOS, 
Windows has nothing to do with what is on the CMOS chip. I am still 
thinking virus or worse a rootkit. and you no longer have to open an 
email attachment or download a file to get infected those nasties come 
through activex and all the lovely holes in IE and OE and Windows, media 
player if Microsoft made it it has holes. don't be fooled into believing 
that the only you get a virus or trojan or rootkit is by clicking on 
something. as far as the santa virus telling you its there or if he 
would know it, thats not the case. A virus is not going to tell you "hay 
I am here and I am going to start deleting your files" I am convenced he 
was infected.

Jo Wells wrote:

>Thanks to everyone that responded.  I DID have to reformat the 
>drive.  I managed to get into setup by holding the 'insert' key down 
>as it booted - it went into Setup and I changed the boot sequence to 
>CDRom.  Then I tried to do a Repair on XP Pro, but I could not.  In 
>fact, I could not get back into Setup again either.  The only option 
>open to me was to format the drive and reinstall Windows, which I did.
>
>He said he had not opened any attachments in email.  Nor did he 
>notice any 'Santa' surprises.  I am thinking maybe it was a corrupt 
>BIOS.  One strange thing though, after reinstalling everything, I 
>wanted to go back into BIOS and change the boot sequence 
>back........hitting F8 takes me right back to the same window (Safe 
>Mode, normal boot into windows, etc.)  I cannot, for the life of me, 
>get into SetUp again.  This has been very strange.
>
>
>  
>

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