Booting problem

[mOeeOm]

Specs:

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4A, 2400 MHz (4.5 x 533)
Motherboard Name Intel Brownsville 2 D845GEBV2 (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM, Audio, Video)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845GE
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (10/21/02)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Storage:
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ST340016A (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive ASUS DRW-1604P
Optical Drive Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (1247261412)

This is my friend's computer, I am posting for him so he doesn't have to create an account, anyways here is the problem from him: earlier i was messing around with my computer and decided to change my boot screen. when i rebooted i realized that i get a black screen asking me which os to boot up with, Windows XP Professional (bootscreen) or Windows XP Professional, both boot up the same. i tried resetting my bootscreen back to normal but it didnt fix my problem. i used style xp to both change and reset my boot screen.

Thanks for any help.

 

[mOeeOm]

 

[jjones]

Can't you just edit the boot.ini and remove the additional boot option? In Explorer right click on My Computer, select Properties, click on Advanced tab, select Settings in Start Up and Recovery, click on Edit in System Startup.

That will let you edit the boot.ini (a read only file). Remove the added boot option under Operating Systems and you should boot right into the OS without that screen asking you to select an OS.

That should work but if you can't boot at all, don't blame me.

 

[mOeeOm]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (bootscreen)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /KERNEL=kernel1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Which do I remove?

 

[theAnimal]

First one.

 

[mOeeOm]

Thanks for the solution, the problem was solved .

 

[jjones]

BTW, if you want to change the boot screen a very easy and safe way without messing with the kernel, you can do this by adding:

/bootlogo /noguiboot

to the end of your boot instruction. It would then look like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /bootlogo /noguiboot

Then create a graphic file called boot.bmp and place it in your windows directory ( C:\Windows )

The graphic must be 640 x 480, 4 bit, 16 color bmp. The easiest way to create the bitmap is to use the MS Paint program and use the standard 16 color palette.