Dare I Say Desktop

[Fay]

When I turn the desktop on, a black screen with a windows message comes up every time. It flashes on & off so fast I can never read what it is about. Is there a way of keeping it on there to read?
Thanks

[JohnP]

Sounds like something 'Dossy' to me....

Sure Mac or Ian knows how to capture it....

[Rocket Pooch]

Fay,

Hit the Pause key.

Chris

[Ian]

if it's something that comes up right at the beginning when you first turn it on, and before windows loads up, it's just a bootup message from the bios. It might be interesting, but generally, if it's something wrong the system will pause and allow you to read it. As it isn't stopping, I wouldn't worry too much.

Or do you catch enough of the message to worry about it?

[Rocket Pooch]

Personally Fay I think you should panic and worry about it, you never know what might be lurking in the box!

[Ian]

I have half an idea, and I'm worrying 

[Fay]

What do you mean Ian??

[Rocket Pooch]

Fay, I just had a chat with Ian on-line and we think if you are only getting half the message on the screen before it goes its something to do with the BIAS of the PC, I'd think its not got Turbo turned on and therefore your not getting the speed out of it, but it could be the system bus.

[Fay]

I pressed Pause & it worked. The message said to choose the system I wanted.....Windows XP or recovery. It was on XP , hope it does not come up again.

What little gems you all are!!!!!!!

[Ian]

system bus then, chris. The polarity of the discombobulator must have fluxed at some time causing positive overfeed to the flap jack.

[Rocket Pooch]

Sh£$ Fay that was a joke, Pause causes an emergency restore  sorry

[JohnP]

tic...tock......tic....tock...

[Rocket Pooch]

system bus then, chris. The polarity of the discombobulator must have fluxed at some time causing positive overfeed to the flap jack.

Well, there was one occasion I remember pressing the turbo button and would you beleive it, the bus got hot and I could not do anything about it, what was really weird was the cooling on the PC kicked in and then whooof, it all went up, flames everywhwere, jipes, they don't tell you these things when you are a commuter....

[Ian]

I've been on a commuter train while it was rebooted. I'll pay more attention to the possibility of fire now.

[Rocket Pooch]

Na na, you may laugh, but I also was on a train when it was  re-booted, back in the wicked kicking-it power failure of New Cross 2002....

Was an odd experience, I was sitting between and Indian guy eating a Dhali, and another French guy describing music in terms of six people acting together to make uniformity in sound, wow that was a surreal train ride.