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> From: A Computer User
> Sent: April 02, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Why do I have to press F1 on boot to
>
> Leo,
> When I boot Vista Bacic a lot of bios stuff appears and I have to press
> the F-1 key to continue. How can I have the boot-up go directly to
> Vista?

Somewhere in the "BIOS Stuff" is an error message. The BIOS will halt
and require you to press F1 if it has detected some kind of error that
it needs to notify you about.

Correct the error, and it should boot cleanly into Vista.

Thanks for asking,

Leo

Article 11331 | Category: Hardware

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