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nusrat
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It could be one of many possible causes. 1/ Mouse not connected 2/keyboard not connected 3/hard drive not detected 4/no or bad ram 5/floppy drive problem These are just a few of the most common causes. Check them all. Also, during boot, but before the message, ensure that it's seeing your master drive or the one with your OS on it. If you have the ability (by hitting del key) at boot, look in the bios for a setting that says "halt on all errors", either disable it or change it to some other setting. All bios's vary in this regard, I can't help further without knowing which you have. Try booting again. You likely would also be hearing a beep code as well.That will help diagnose your issue if you knew what bios you had.
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My problem is different. I get the boot failure, system halted message while the computer is on and sitting idle. I turn off the system and on again and it boots up just fine. I also noticed that I cannot do a system restore.
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http://ask.metafilter.com/18933/Boot-Failure-System- Halted this is a good forum to read up on subject, what it boils down to is that PC is not seeing the HD in right boot order and you need to enter cmos and reset, there is also a chance battery on motherboard getting weak.
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use a second hard drive with a new operating system on it and see if your data is still there... check into reading jumper settings
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