Video card would probably cause an error before the bios info, then ram, and you can boot into windows without a keyboard & mouse. Sounds more like a MBR problem with the hard drive, although that would show an error telling you it was.
The first screen is the bios info, CPU, RAM & Hard Disks that are installed, the second screen with the gray box is usually I/O configuration. Can you get to the boot menu pressing F8 after the second bios screen?
Last edited by Coffee; February 9th, 2004 at 23:34 PM.
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Hi
First of all I would like to thank you very much for helping me/my friend
I am in contact through messenger and phone as she lives about 700 miles from me. She is more concerned about her hardrive as she has about 300 photo's of her baby on there (not backed up)She is coming here in about 2 weeks but is flying here, so I told her to bring her hardrive with her and I will try to get the photo's off her hardrive through my computer.
The computer is quite old, intel celeron 533mhz, 128mb mem, not a clue as to what m/board she has onboard sound and vid, has 2 small hardrives - 9gb & 3.5gb I think her computer was one of those cheap ones on sale about 4-5 years ago
She can get to the dos prompt but when she tries to go into safe mode it just goes into the loop and does this on all the options. I have now pointed her to M/soft web page to download the start up disks (6) her friend has lent her a laptop to do this. I do not know if this will help but worth a try.
She has tried boot disks but they do not work. She is getting this error message now: INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
It says theres a corrupt file, does this help at all??
Thanks
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