BIOS and Reboot Question

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Hi.  Very basic question.  I have a GX280 with a 180 GB drive and XP professional system.  It runs just fine and has been OK since the proper drivers were installed 9 months ago.  The drivers are; R79695, R96000, R105155, R132254.   The BIOS setting is 'On Board'.  In BIOS, I directed Serial Port 1 to COM1.  Everything is backed up.When I bought the (used) computer about 10 months ago, everything was wiped clean.  I made a mistake however by selecting the MS option for running the computer when I first installed XP.  Later, I rebooted and then selected the non-MS option – and this system has run well (however I can not read pdf files directly).  The end result is that I have two systems on the computer.  I have no idea what other problems may arise from this situation in the future.  I would like to clean up the computer and have only the non-MS system.I do not know how to wipe the system clean and start over.  Your advice on this would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.akilo55, Frank Thank you for your comments.  However, the question is -- how do I wipe the system clean from a GX280 and reboot with XP?  Thank you.  akilo55, Frank Many thanks for the detailed comments.To answer the first question, when XP is loaded there are three options offered; (1) an MS dominated system (2) a joint system (MS and other) or (3) non-MS.Initially I took the first option, then I rebooted and hoped I could get rid of the MS dominated system by selecting/installing the non-MS system.  No luck; I got two systems and am using the non-MS system.  It works fine.  However, I can not read pdf files which are on line (a minor, small item).  If I download a pdf file, I can read it just fine.The only thing that has been done is to use the CD provided for XP professional.  I do not know if this was Linux or not.You can tell that I am very new at this sort of thing; I try to stick to application items.  For system items, I tend to try to learn only what is essential for survival.I played around with the COM1 item and found that the configuration worked just fine so I left it.  My two sites (one is a portal) are fine and both use quick time (audio only).  The sites are built with 1Site (EWE); very nice site building software.  The recently installed site quicktime display however is geared for video (giving a large footprint) rather than old fashion audio controls (but it works fine); it would be nice to avoid the large footprint if possible.  The typical large footprint can be seen/used at http://www.babysafari.us/main-1_00005b.htm.The comments are greatly appreciated.  Ron, C3PO5, RoHe -- Thanks, akilo55, Frank

RoHe · Answer

HUH??? What is set to 'onboard'? Sound, and/or video?? If you have an add-in PCI audio and/or video card, you don't want the 'onboard' settings because that disables the add-in cards which probably have more/better capabilities than the onboard sound and video. Can you explain what you mean when you say the 'MS option' and  'non-MS' option? You should set the Serial port(s) to AUTO and let the system decide how best/most efficiently to handle it (them). You need Adobe Reader (free) or Foxit Reader (free version) to read pdf files. You can download the latest Adobe Reader  for Windows XP here. Ron

C3PO5 · Answer

Hi

I think the OP had Linux non-MS option and MS XP option but he reinstalled XP again giving hIm the MS XP boot loader with no option to select non MS Linux and he wants to remove XP and only use Linux as his OS but i could wrong it is hard to understand his post thats for sure !!

Maybe the OP can give better information to get a better reply to his post following some of his other post it seems he is a Liunx user and is asking how to remove XP and just use Linux just another guess on my end tho ????:emotion-18:

RoHe · Answer

I considered that the OP might be talking about having a dual boot with Linux and XP, but it was definitely unclear to me.

Having both OS on the system shouldn't matter, aside from the hard drive disk space that's consumed by having 2 different OS installed.

Ron

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