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Old April 27th, 2004, 11:14 PM
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Angry cd-room boot problem..
Hi. Anyone know how to fix this? I`m trying to boot the pc from a bootable cd-room win98se cd and XP pro. I`ve tryed all the setting in bios bat no go. The cd works fine on laptop with phonex bios . I have a P3 1.2G on giga-byte motherboard ,with 1 cd room and 1 cd-rw wich works fine from any point of view ,gest dont want to boot cd. I also updated the bios to latest rev. AMI bios F9. I dont know what alse to try. Any idea??? Thanks!!
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Old April 28th, 2004, 08:19 AM
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Dont know how much simlilar Laptops are to Desktops, but when my HDD stoped responding, it was the ATA cable (aswell as the HDD itself), maybe its something to do with the data transfer, try running DOS based CD-ROM diagnostics, just to check that your CD-ROM will respond correctly!
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Old April 29th, 2004, 05:33 AM
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I did try and works fine. I boot from flopy and go to any cd room and run programs. It gest doesn`t want to boot from cd-room . Other ideas ??
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