Stuck on BIOS screen

[phronesis]

Hi. First post here and in some need of help. While I was out yesterday my little 4 year old nephew and niece found my PC and started playing on the keyboard. As told by my 11 year old nephew who was watching, they somehow managed to pull up a "black screen" (thinking DOS prompt maybe?) and saw a flashing letter D. that's all they said.

This morning: I turn on the PC, it gets to the initial BIOS screen and doesn't proceed to boot Windows 7. If I opt to enter Setup it says "entering setup" but never enters setup. I've tried taking out each memory stick and rebooting to no avail. I need somebody smarter than me to help. Specs below.

Alienware Area 51 X58
Asus X58 Mobo
Intel i7-920
6GB DDR3 memory
Seagate 1TB HDD
Internal WD Backup drive
2 NVIDIA GTX 260 Graphics cards
Windows 7

Not running any peripherals except a printer and wireless usb card.

Any help out there? TIA!

[dbc]

I would do a system restore to a point before they played with it.

[phronesis]

How can I do a system restore if Windows won't boot?

[kilgoretrout]

I don't run win7 but I believe you can do a restore from the installation cd:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-Windows-Vista

[phronesis]

I upgraded to Windows 7 via download and don't have a recovery CD. I do have a Vista 64 recovery CD which is what the system came installed with originally. Will it not work or will it just overwrite the Windows 7 OS?

[mickzer]

See here:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/window...-repair-discs/

mickzer.