cmos battery failing perhaps, the 'watch' battery inside the case that
retains the setup info, so that it falls back to default settings, lowest
processor speed, a c cdrom boot, lowest screen res, after it is powered down
dont know how to find and replace a laptop battery,
you could google it, by make and model
or take it to the local pc shop and have them do it

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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"Brian in Alabama" Brian in wrote in
message ...
Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off
for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I
get
"operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive
does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to
the
CD ROM drive, and run through most of the diagnostics, it will eventually
boot on C: but very slowly. The more times I attempt a reboot, the faster
it
gets. Once it is booted, I can restart the laptop and everything boots
normally (but it runs slower than normal). However, when I leave it off
overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy again and I get "operating
system
not found". Norton Utilities Virus Scan and Lavasoft Ad-Aware have been
ineffective.