Summary: I have an older Dell laptop which does not have boot from CD as a BIOS option. I want to install LINUX from a CD. How can I make this laptop boot fr...
Summary: I was recently given an old digital celebris GL5120. It has an amd k6 200 cpu, i430fx chipset, 80mb ram (i know only 64 is cachable). Its possibly the...
Summary: Hi, this minor problem turned into a major one very quickly. In the bios, there's an option to set boot priority, it has, "first boot device: Floppy,"...
Summary: Hi All, My IDE cd-rom recently died, so I popped in my SCSI Yamaha CD-RW to take it's place until I can get a new machine altogether. It works great ...
Summary: Bill, It is not your BIOS that is on the hard drive, rather, it is a program which allows you to access the BIOS. Part of the proof of this is that wh...
Summary: When I had that happen to me--the bypassing of the floppy--I don't think I figured out the problem. Someone had brought it over to install ME and I e...
Summary: I had Dell Latitude C400 laptop, this laptop is small and light laptop without build in CD and floppy drive, I nornally use USB ext. CD drive. I need ...
Summary: Where did your computer come from originally? Did it come with WinXP installed on it? Do you by chance have a USB flash drive inserted or a floppy ...
Summary: Hi: I have a serious problem , my system isn't able to boot from DVD or CDRW even I put the correct settings in BIOS. My drives hardware configuration...
Summary: please help!! this is my first timebuilding a system.i have all the parts installed into my case they are: athlon 3200 asus a7n8x-e deluxe mobo 1gig c...
Summary: I am in need to reload Windows 2000 from a CD to a new hard drive. The system is a point-of-sale (POS) PC, which has a touch screen and an internal ha...
Summary: (Note, everything in this has been from googling my errors over the last five days, myself, I know relatively nothing in this subject ) The backgroun...
Summary: I just got a toshiba portege 3110ct laptop with a blank HDD, no floppy, no cd rom (external). When it first came it booted to a c: prompt. I have a ...
Summary: Excerpts from notes I made while loading a system with both XP MCE 2005 and Vista Premium.... 2. is probably related to your problem. You may also fi...
Summary: yea im running xp. i wanna install a new OS. but im unable to boot from my drives. icant even boot into bios. if i click the del button, nothing happe...
Summary: I have a Compac-5900Z Athlon 850. I just put in a new IBM 80g hardrive. I did not have software to create any partions so I just let Win 2K Prof crea...
Summary: Hi I have a harddisc where it is impossibel to boot from. I can boot from floppy. I have tried DOS 5.02 and format c: /s, and it was completed without...
Summary: Running with a video card (works on another pc), 256 stick of DDR 2700 ram, 2100 athlon xp, 400 watt psu, floppy (works on another pC), and 80 GB Seag...
Summary: The SATA drivers are on the disk but they are not installed with the other Motherboard drivers. The SATA drivers need to be installed prior to bootin...
Summary: Hi everyone! I recently had some screen flickering. The screen will go black for a while and then recover. However, over time, this black out start...
Summary: Put together my first system: Gigabyte GA81HXP Mobo 512 RAMBUS, PC1600 2 Maxtor 40 Gb 7200rpm HD ATA133 in RAID 0 (Striping config) 1 Pioneer DVD Driv...
Summary: Hello. I have a problem with booting up my system. Tried to read through the posts here but couldnt find anything exactly like i have. System fails to...
Summary: I have a Dell Optiplex GS, and currently under the BIOs there is no way to boot from the CD, I can only boot from the floppy disk. And I updated my fl...
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