Hi Jacob; Thank you very much for your input. Your response gives me some hope because I was told that the ticking noise when the computer is shutdown is the harddrive trying to read and can't because the harddrive might be going bad. Thanks again, take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer won't start
That part about it wanting you to hit del key to then enter BIOS at startup is something we sometimes used to get in old days after a power surge etc., where the motherboard had lost settings etc., so it is a bit strange, and don't think it would really be related to the file issues. Generally it would want you to sort of confirm the BIOS settings relating to hard drives, etc. and save them as such and then that part of it would revert to normal, but haven't worked on hardware like that in quite a while, so maybe you could just at least try looking for the keystroke to save the settings after it enters the BIOS as such, and that might solve that part of the problem. HTH Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara Arcadia" <[email protected]> To: "Blind Computing" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 7:58 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Computer won't start > Hi All; > > I am running XPSP3 Pro & Jaws 10 on this machine. After assigning Notepad > to open .txt files and Outlook Express to open .eml files some strange > things happened. First, when I tried to open an .eml file, when I would > press enter it would take me back to my Inbox. I thought after making > these > changes I had better reboot and that is where it really got strange. I > gave > the computer the commands to restart and it wouldn't, then I did a hard > shutdown, and when the computer shuts down there is a ticking sound coming > from the computer, like a clock ticking. When I try to start it up a > screen > comes up showing the computer specs and a message to " press DEL to enter > SETUP ." This doesn't do anything. I plugged in a USB mouse so my wife > could possibly click on " DEL " but, the mouse doesn't seem to work > either. > I tried to start it in safe mode and it comes up with the same screen that > gives all the computer specs like what kind of RAM, processor speed, and > things like that. Oh, and that message to "press DEL to enterSETUP ". > Does > anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get Windows started? All help > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. > Mike > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5293 (20100719) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5293 (20100719) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
