PC locks up at Supermicro splash screen during warm boot

are you hitting f2 in time during the boot splash?

Repairing through recovery console:


Boot form cd


During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup
Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS the scroll down to advanced bios features press enter change your first boot device to cd,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart

Enter recovery console

Enter your password for windows
Type and enter copy F:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ assuming f is your cd drive letter
Type and enter copy F:\i386\ntldr c:\
Type and enter fixmbr, yes to agree
Type and agree to fixboot
Type exit to get out of the console and exit the installation and reboot. The above should fix files needed to boot.

hope this helps

During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup
Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS the scroll down to advanced bios features press enter change your first boot device to cd,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart
(note after you have loaded the operating system you must go back and change the first boot device to your hard drive)
The BIOS is AMI. Under ADVANCED SETUP:
The options listed for 1st,2nd ,3rd Boot device include:
IDE-0 means Pri master ?
IDE-1 means Pri slave ?
IDE-2 means Sec master ?
IDE-3 means Sec slave ?

hope this helps

instaal the operating system again, this is due to the corrupted windows.

Tap F8 during the Acer Splash screen, that will give you the multi-boot screen, and you can pick how you want the laptop to boot. Some systems it is the delete key and others it is the escape.

try booting into safe mode. hit the f8 key during bootup to get that option and see if safe mode works fine. If it does, then the problem is a bad or corrupt video driver. The display itself could be going bad, also, but that seems less likely if you can see the splash screen every time. If you cant boot into safe mode, you may have corrupt OS and need to do a repair install.

If you are unable to boot into safe mode by tapping F8 during the IBM splash screen then you will need a windows Install disc to boot off of and fix your boot command. If you don't have a disc then try to borrow a friends, you need to boot off that disc do that you can get to the recovery console and fix your boot menu.

Please try to press 'Del' key during start-up / manufacturer splash screen, it might display the Bios set-up screen. regards

update the bios

In the bios boot some OEMs set it to show the splash screen instead of the "Press F2..." to see this screen press esc when you see the manufacturers logo.