Hi, If you are talking about your friend having to press f1 to continue the = boot cycle, it is likely that an error message is popping up saying an error = has been detected by the hardware monitor. This happened to my girlfriend's computer recently. I had to get a mate to go into the bios and go into = the hardware monitor settings and set everything to ignore. This will not = harm the computer. My girlfriend's computer is running excellently and is = able to boot straight through to windows every time now. David Truong E-mail and MS messenger: davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Home Page: http://members.optusnet.com.au/davidtruong/ -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of Hal Pearson Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 1:36 PM To: JFW List Subject: help for a friend, having to press f1 when computer starts Hi all, A friend just called, and told me that she is having to press f1 every = time she boots her computer. this started happening on Monday. She is using = jfw 3.5, with windows 98. What can be causing this? Hal -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or = the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact = the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx __________ NOD32 1.700 (20040331) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.nod32.com -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx