BIOS PnP
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A big killer for certain pieces of hardware is the BIOS's Plug'n'Play feature. When enabled this may cause a, sometimes boot critical, piece of hardware to fail. Generally it is more of a minor inconvenience though, affecting internal devices such as sound cards and network cards.
How To Fix
Turning off Plug'n'Play OS does not generally result in any perceptible change from a user's perspective and hence is the best solution the majority of the time for this problem. In brief you will need to disable the PnP option in the BIOS options.
When you first turn your computer on there is generally a brief message displayed which indicates how to get to the BIOS options screen. Usually this involves pressing the delete key very early on in the boot process (Continually tapping the delete key until the screen shows is generally a failsafe way of achieving this).
Next step is to find the PnP option and disable it. Once again this varies a little, but if you hunt around a few different submenus it should be visible. Most likely it will reside in something similar to "Pnp/PCI Configuration" or "Advanced BIOS Features"). You will want to set this option to 'Disabled', 'Manual' or similar sounding option. Remember to choose the 'Save and Exit' option after this and your computer will reboot to a hopefully more functional system.
