I have been trying to fix my bosses computer and it won;t boot up on it's own it always ask's you press f1 to continue or f2 to see the setup menu. and I wanted to know if anybody here would happen to know what's wrong with it and what I have to do to fix it so that it will boot on it's own. thanks in advance for your help.
There should be a setting in the BIOS to disable to "hit key to boot." It still boots right? Just you have to hit a key to do it? What motherboard does it have, or at least what BIOS is it using? There should be a setting in the BIOS menu (I forget what its called exactly) but you can switch it to "none" and then it won't need you to hit a key to finish the boot.
Usually I only bump into this issue if the floppy drive is either missing or stops working. To fix this issue, I usually remove it since I haven't even seen anyone using floppies since 2003. deltatux
Yeah, my pc did that because I didn't have a floppy in, I never have. There should be a setting in the BIOS to set to none or off so it doesn't scan for a floppy. It should say like 1.44m/keyboard or something similar and just set it to off or none. Its what I did on here and I'm sure the Dell pc has some setting like that in its BIOS.
Most of the time there is a specific message to go with the f1 to continue to tell you what is wrong. My first guess is that the rear case fan has an issue, that is a common cause of the F1. The problem is though that if it is certain models, then the fan does not have a standard connector so replacement requires some soldering or rewiring of the new fan.
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