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XP Always wants to boot from CD ROM
Name: Julian Date: September 21, 2002 at 15:30:59 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Ath 1400 512Ram
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For some reason my PC wants to boot from CD ROM now and not HD. BIOS says HD1-1st, HD2-2nd, Floppy-3rd boot device. Been to MSCONFIG - all is ok.. I think it tries to boot from the Network first?? I have Ntwrk in house. It comes up with BOOT DISK FAILURE INSERT AND BOOT FROM SYSTEM DISK. If I pop in XP CD at this point it thinks for a second and boots up fine?!? Doesn't run SETUP or anything from CD. Any suggestions?
Name: jcw Date: September 21, 2002 at 15:45:37 Pacific
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does your bios setup identify your HDs as HD1, HD2, etc. or is it HD0, HDI, etc.? if you have an HD0, try setting that as your 1st boot device, and HD1 as the 2nd.
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Response Number 2
Name: jcw Date: September 21, 2002 at 16:01:27 Pacific
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Note: My response #1 above assumes that the lowest numbered HD is where WinXP is installed.
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Response Number 3
Name: Julian Date: September 21, 2002 at 16:24:27 Pacific
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BIOS Has HDD-0, HDD-1, HDD-2. I have tried all the above for FIRST BOOT - No Effect?
I have read that me BIOS might have been hacked...bit scared of the Flashing the BIOS option....gulp!
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Response Number 4
Name: jcw Date: September 21, 2002 at 18:07:25 Pacific
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Your initial question implied this was not occurring before. If so, how was the bios set before? How many HDDs do you have and where is WinXP installed?
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Response Number 5
Name: Undo Date: September 21, 2002 at 19:27:51 Pacific
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Open your boot.ini file in notepad and see if the right partition is listed for XP.
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Response Number 6
Name: Julian Date: September 29, 2002 at 05:29:33 Pacific
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Thanks for the help but no good I'm afraid. Firstly, I have only 1 HDD @ HDD-0. BIOS does have listing for HDD-1, HDD-2, FLOPPY, SCSI, CDROM also. I have tried every single possible combination but still boots from CD-ROM. I have FLASHED BIOS, FDISKed HD, REBUILT XP from scratch.....and it STILL wants to boot from CD!!...I find this most odd as it never USED to do it!!..I have tried Sytem Recovery from previous setup (earliest I could find). This STILL didn't solve the problem. I am sure it something on the Motherboard, but what??
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