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Install Win XP
Name: Argentus Date: May 17, 2008 at 17:17:06 Pacific OS: none CPU/Ram: 1gb Product: generic
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I just bought a computer, with no software. I want to install win xp and it wont boot from the cd. This is what I have. any ideas? 1gb ram 250 hd AMD AM2 Athlon X2 4200 DVD LG Asrock alivenf6p-vsta bios p1.30
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Response Number 4
Name: Argentus Date: May 17, 2008 at 18:11:04 Pacific
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I am not actually prompted for anything. It just beeps and then it does nothing. It once read it but I stopped it as I thought I was going instead install Linux, but it would not read the CD. So I went back to XP and it does no longer read it. No idea
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Response Number 5
Name: aegis Date: May 17, 2008 at 18:34:22 Pacific
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Is it a legitimate Microsoft CD? Is the optical drive ok? Can you boot from a floppy?
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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth Date: May 17, 2008 at 20:03:20 Pacific
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If there is no disc detected while attempting to boot from the drive & the drive is also not accessible from Windows, despite being detected, you may have a defective drive.
Name: Dan Penny Date: May 17, 2008 at 21:02:41 Pacific
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If you have a floppy drive on this machine, you can quickly check the drive in dos.
Boot the machine with a Win98SE Boot Disk choosing "With CDROM Support".
Insert a Windows CD into the drive and at the A:\> prompt, type in dir/a/-p %cdrom%: (or dir/a/-p x: where x: is the device letter assigned to the drive(s) during the boot process) and hit Enter. If you get a directory listing, the hardware aspect of the drive is OK.
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Response Number 8
Name: T-R-A Date: May 18, 2008 at 01:30:00 Pacific
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Even if the drive isn't bootable, but you can see the contents of the drive, you could try floppy bootdisks:
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