P4C800E DLX F8 Bootmenu

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To all,

I 'm a newbie on this group (from the Netherlands) and I have a question
about the fact that I am not able to enter the Win XP Prof. startupmenu
(pressing F8) while booting, because my Bios version (1016) seems to have
its own option when pressing F8 during Post, namely a menu for choosing the
boot drive.

All suggestions are welcome!!

Thanks in advance.

Jan

 

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Jan van der Staaij schrieb:
>
> To all,
>
> I 'm a newbie on this group (from the Netherlands) and I have a question
> about the fact that I am not able to enter the Win XP Prof. startupmenu
> (pressing F8) while booting, because my Bios version (1016) seems to have
> its own option when pressing F8 during Post, namely a menu for choosing the
> boot drive.
>
> All suggestions are welcome!!

You must hit F8 just after XP has started booting. Could be tricky to
get the timing right. (Funnily enough, on my P3B-F the tricky thing is
getting the boot menu to appear by hitting Esc just before booting is
attempted and after the Promise BIOS - I have an Ultra66 in there -
disappears. That's a one or two second timeframe.)

Stephan
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"Stephan Grossklass" <sgrokla-nospam04q2@yahoo.de> schreef in bericht
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> You must hit F8 just after XP has started booting. Could be tricky to
> get the timing right. (Funnily enough, on my P3B-F the tricky thing is
> getting the boot menu to appear by hitting Esc just before booting is
> attempted and after the Promise BIOS - I have an Ultra66 in there -
> disappears. That's a one or two second timeframe.)
>
> Stephan

Thanks Stephan, but as you mentioned it is quite tricky and so far I have
not managed to get it right. Why for heavens sake did Asus choose the
F8-key, while knowing this one has its own particular function in WinXP? All
F-keys would be fine, except F8!!!! Any ideas? BTW, I mailed Asus several
times about this, but guess.... no reply at all.

Jan

 

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"Jan van der Staaij" <jstaaijNOSPAM@worldonline.nl> writes:

> Thanks Stephan, but as you mentioned it is quite tricky


Simply ensure c:\boot.ini has more than one entry
and a line that says
timeout=10

and then during that 10 seconds you can press F8

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