Summary: This is insane. I just bought a new pc and decided to replace some new hardware with the old one, like the HD, modem and such because some of it is be...
Summary: I need help as well. I am building new computer with a 5ema+ Soyo motherboard and an new but older K6-2 500 mHZ processor. Every thing went well until...
Summary: The MB Wont reconise a primaster master or a secondary master, Just primary slave and secondary slave. The HD I put in has 2k on it, With a diffrent c...
Summary: HI DAVEINCAPS, I have a boot disk, I ran scandisk and zipped through what showed as C drive, I select boot up with cd-rom support, It reports drive do...
Summary: I have no option in the BIOS Setup to boot from a CD-ROM. If I use the Windows XP startup disk option to boot from the CD, will it allow me to install...
Summary: You're not giving enough info. But my guess would be that you have to get into the BIOS & change your 1st boot device to CD-ROM There is no turning ba...
Summary: I've got a compaq here, I'm trying to do a restore but the restore is on CD's and the BIOS does not allow to have boot order to CDROm and only has opt...
Summary: So far nothing is helping. To ace omega: I tried before to Control Alt Del after a normal boot up with the blank screen.That doesn' work because noth...
Summary: I have a select number of folders which i would like to back up to CD ( CD-RW ) everynight at mid-night automatically, i.e. schedule the files to be ...
Summary: I am running a Cel 667/64/15G with onboard video. When I boot up, the CD Rom light flashes on and so does the floppy (like normal) but nothing co...
Summary: I am tring to install a new HD on a older computer. it is replacing the only HD it has. I have the 80gb HD hooked up and a CD-ROM. no floppy. it sh...
Summary: Hello all: I've been trying to set up a cd-rom on an old 386, 66 mhz. When I use a boot disk, it works fine, drivers installed and functioning. The pr...
Summary: I am re-installing a computer for my folks, and I am having problem I have never encountered before. I have changed the CMOS settings to have the CD-...
Summary: I have a Toshiba Satellite 100CS notebook pc. It is very old, and has no built in CD-Rom drive. I recently ran into a boot problem, and a friend cam...
Summary: I booted my pc from a boot dics and have reformatted my hard drive of XP so I can reload the operating system back on but when I try to boot from the ...
Summary: Hi, my system has been running fine and i shut it down before going away for a week. When i returned and tried to start up my pc i recieced the messa...
Summary: Start your computer and hopfully your mintor will completly turn on before it's too late since you have to press a key on your keyboard to get into Bi...
Summary: It's possible that your CD-Rom is broken. If your bios allows it try to boot from your CD-Rom with a bootable CD (maybe you have to unplug your RW - t...
Summary: I recently bought a lot of new things. I bought an nForce 680i SLI mobo, an intel quad core 2.4ghz processor, an evga geforce 8800gtx gpu, a tmg i2 th...
Summary: No, wasn't planning on using a DVD drive, I know that won't work anyway, that laptop is not powerfull enough. As for the power, I was referring to ap...
Summary: I'm trying to install an OS on an old Dell M166a, but I'm encountering some problems. When I first tried booting up from the CD, it wouldn't work, eve...
Summary: Thank you so much! I still have the origenal autoexec.bat and Config.sys, so it should be a breeze to set it up. The computer was givin to me. The per...
Summary: eddie, The CD-ROM is on the primary IDE as a slave. The BIOS(AMIBOIS 95 MB-1433/40/50UIV)has primary and secondary--which I take as the primary and se...
Summary: Don't know if anyone can help? A friend of mine just bought a laptop that came with no O/S or CDROM drive. He bought an external (Freecom) CDROM drive...
Summary: I am building a cheap server and i picked up a cd-rom for a friend and it seem to work fine, bios detects it and so does MSCDEX and it sets the drive ...
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