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Lol im not pressing nothing ...ja mean when it says bla bla hit a key to run from cd or sumot ...im not honest not touching a thing the pcs just screwed up lol

Right guys this is what ive just done swapped the cmos battery booted it up and it tried boot from floppy i went into bios disabled the floppy drive cus for some reason it reads one yet its unplugged and removed completly so i dont no whats goin on there but ive disable it then ive swapped the 1st boot device from floppy to cd rom ...then ive hit f10 saved it an rebooted it runs the cd and inspects my computer etc....asks me if i want to install windows hit f8 to agree an all that and formats it ..installs the files and then comes to the reboot in 15 seconds ..i let it and soon as it comes back on the cd kicks strait back in with the inspecting your computers hardware etc ...or it said drive A failed etc ...so now im just lost lol

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/motherboard-issues/4724-think-its-motherboard-problems.html#post34000 thats a pic although it dosnt really show alot ....and no wolfy i did actually forget to put it back in at one stage but not tried replacing it ..will give it a go thanks

Hi Wolfeymole and thanks for trying to help but ive done all that already m8 its ....well it is exactly what ya say its like asif soon as its formatted an loaded up the xp files ..it reboots an loses its memory kinda thing but its not me lol..ive been hittin f10 all time to save the settings it just dosnt save them...ive got screen shots of what it says with me fone i will have load em up...but thats why i think the motherboard might have a problem as iam saving the settings.

Hi Dalo and thanks for tryin to help. Ive tried what you said but still no luck. I go into bios and get it to boot from cd....i reboot the pc and it kicks in and says checking your system etc and then asks me if i want to install windows xp ...then it asks if i want to format it ...ive hit ok format ...it goes all through the format process fine then loads up the windows files then comes the reboot .....now i no normally it would just kick back in after reboot an carry on loading up windows but this dosnt ..when it reboots it comes back on and asks me ...well says drive A failer or sumot select proper boot device and reboot ...so ive tried settin it to boot from hd ...i reboot and back it comes with the drive A failed select proper etc or hit f1 an i dont get anywhere basically ....ive tried restorin to default settings but nothing seems to work ..any ideas guys ?

Hello Wolfeymole an thanks for the reply It dosnt actually ask me if i want to run from the cd it automatically kicks in when i turn on the pc ...like i pop in the recovery cd and then restart and it just kicks in ...if i dont pop anything in the drive it just says boot from floppy an looks for it like then dosnt find it and goes to the cd ...i'll redo it i'll just need turn this off cus i have to use the one monitor ..i'll jot it down but from what i remember its always trying to boot from floppy

Hi all first off im using windows xp home edition .. ive been browsing the site for a few clues as to what my problem might be and it might be a motherboard problem ..heres whats matter Ive got a pc that was working but had never been formatted ..hardly any space left on hd etc so thought id format it. I have a couple of 80g harddrives and its the same thing on both so its not the harddrives i dont think ... Basically when i formatted it ..it goes as normal ...then it loads up the new files ya no copying windows ...then it gets to the reboot in 15 seconds etc and it dose ...but ...an heres the problem ...when it comes back on after the reboot its completly the same and it runs all over again checking your computer etc and it goes back through asking me if i want to format ..an if i say yes its around n around always back to the same place. ive tried nipping into bios an changing how it boots up but it dosnt help no matter how i try to boot up ...it did ask me to boot up in floppy ..it always sayins cant find boot floppy etc ..then it looks for boot cd rom etc but i never get anywhere as there isnt a floppy plugged in to boot from and ive not ever booted from a floppy. Anyone any ideas ?...ive removed the bios battery for a bit to try reset it but that didnt work either so im lost lol