F-1

When I boot-up, I'm instructed to hit F-1 to continue. What's up? How do I remove this step?

 

What else does it say?

 

At the top of the page it lists 6-7 lines of "specs" (Award Modular, etc..) The last line says: Conflict I/O Ports: 2F8

Then there's a big space and at the bottom it says:

Press F1 to continue; DEL to enter setup
12/16/1999-i440LX-00000006C-00

After I press F-1 it boots up...(!?!)

 

It is telling you that the conflict on the port has to be removed before you stop getting the message.

Look in your device manager and see where the conflict is. I would guess in comm port 2. If it has a yellow exclamation point on it, remove the port and reboot. Windows will rebuild the port.

 

Conflict I/O Ports: 2F8

Normal address for External Serial Port COM2

When I had this it was an apparently fried Internal Modem causing it.

Or at the least a mis-behaving one.

BillyBob

 

still "f-1 ing "

I did have a conflict in Device Manager which is gone now, but that hasn't affected the opening sequence. I still have to hit "F-1' to continue with the boot-up.

 

And what does that screen say? (above telling you to enter F1)

 

miracleman

What was the last thing you did before the problem started.

Did you change ( or try to ) or move any hardware ?

BillyBob

 

F-1 (cont'd)

BillyBob...

This happened after my "Hard-Drive Cleanup" problems which I posted back on September 7th. As a result of all your instructions, I freed up many gigs; got the machine really cookin'; and learned alot in the process. But now, I get the "F-1" prompt on the "Black Screen of Death" whenever it boots up.

 

Sorry for not answering sooner but I have been gone for a few days due to illness in the family.

We just got home ( from the 400 mile trip ) but with no idea when we might be leaving again.

Conflict I/O Ports: 2F8

Is your modem an ISA or PCI. Mine was ISA.

The messsage is clear that there is a conflict beteen the BIOS and Windows in COM2.

As I stated in an earlier post the one ( and only one ) that I had it was cause by an Internal modem. Which I removed.

I tried disabling COM2 in the BIOS and then the machine would not boot at all with the Modem in place.

Bmoore1129

If it is the same as the error I had, that is all it says.

And there were no conflicts in the DM. Which is quite often the case if ( and when ) an internal Modem is envolved.

BillyBob

 

there is a conflict beteen the BIOS and Windows in COM2.

Slight error there.

That should read " Conflict between the Hardware and the BIOS. "

Windows is not even in the picture at that time.

BillyBob

 

2F8 sounds like the COM ports, try resetting your BIOs settings back to default, or change the COM ports to "AUTO" and see what happens