Recent content by simball1

Thank you Bochane for trying to help me :)

Also, the product key isnt verifying on microsoft. My mom bought the computer online.

I am really green with computers. Does removable drive mean that I can use the thumb drive, hit enter and it will retrieve the information from the thumb drive to restart? If so can I download windows 7 homepro onto my good computer to a file, copy onto the thumb drive, pop the thumb drive into...

It shows F2 for settings (nothing I can alter) and F12 shows Boot Menu, under that it shows removable drive, under that Hard drive, under that cd/dvd/cd-rw drive, under that diagnostics. there is no cd drive on this computer, only a place to insert a thumb drive.

I was going to download onto my working computer and then put it on a thumb drive. I was then hoping by inserting the the thumb drive it would over ride whatever was going on. However, the stuck computer doesn't acknowledge that the thumb drive was even inserted. The computer won't let me access...

It is a dell xps L321X. when i go to F2 it shows bios version A08. When I go to boot tab from F12 it only lets you select boot priority order. I have been unable to get to a place to actually type instructions like they show online to get to safe mode with F8. On the bottom of the screen it...

My computer runs windows 7. Keeps staying on Windows getting ready. I have tried hard shut downs, disconnected the battery, all the function keys. The only thing that has an effect is F12 but when I select reboot it goes right back to windows getting ready. F2 just shows info that can't take...