Re: Satellite Pro A120 - Cannot access the BIOS and install the Win XP
Hello
Ive a Toshiba Satellite Pro A120, Ive installed a Linux operating system on it, and uninstalled it.
When I come back to the Windows XP OS, I could no more access the Bios (event the i press F1, F2 ) and the computer could not boot the windows XP SP2 CD too but it boots the windows XP 2001 CD
Any one could help me please
Thank u jeffrey for your help, ;;;;;or the BIOS i'll try later....for the boot, i tried many times,,,, i screen to shoose the boot appears, and when i select the cd boot it works with the windows xp 2001 SP1, but with windows SP2 it doesn't boot,,,, even though i tried many cds of win sp2 ,,,, so each time , to install windows sp2 , i have to install SP1 then upgrade to SP2 and it takes much more time... i precise that few months ago it was proprly working with the WIN XP SP2 CD
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