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Compaq Lte 6x CD-Rom Problem
Name: Jeff Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:28:50 Pacific
Comment:
Hello. I've got a Compaq Lte 5100 that's running W95. Recently, I purchased a number of swappable CD-Rom drives for the 5000 series. I'm having a problem with one of them. When I insert the CD-Rom into the swappable bay, it will not allow the system to boot. Instead it asks for a boot disk to be inserted. I've gone into Bios to disable the diskette boot option, but it does not help. I also noticed in Bios that when this particular CD-Rom drive is installed that the system does not even detect the hard drive. If I wait to install the CD-Rom until the system starts to run Windows, then it works fine, but I'm just avoiding the problem. Anyone know how to fix this?
Name: Michael Date: March 3, 2001 at 14:48:41 Pacific
Reply:
There should be an option in BIOS where you can choose the boot sequence of the laptop. Usually it will say like C,A or A,C or even CD-ROM, FLoppy, Hard Disk. Make sure that the hard drive is the first bootable device and it should work. Also if there is an option to boot from a CD, turn that off as well.
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