How can I tell XP to start at startup?
I have a HP Desktop running XP. Recently, I had an intermitten problem. At startup, I get a black screen with a curson flashing at the top left of the screen. I pressed the power button to force shutdown, startup, then again and press ESC to the blue screen to access the start menu. I select the drive and press enter and it starts as normal each time.
How can I do always boot from the hard drive?
Any advice would be appreciated,
Sam
This is a setting that is maintained in the BIOS settings.
The BIOS settings are stored (kept alive) when your computer is powered by a battery mounted on the motherboard. It is usually a battery the size of a quarter but old motherboards can use different batteries. If your BIOS settings are not be memorized, you might consider replacing this battery on your motherboard.
Another symptom of a weak or dead battery, it is the date and time is not correct then turn your computer back on.
HTH,
JW
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