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| 146612 | 2003-05-22 14:42:00 | how do i boot from a cdrom instead of a floppy disk i know its something in the bios. Help |
unknown (2981) | ||
| 146613 | 2003-05-22 22:01:00 | Yes, you need to change your BIOS settings. When your computer starts up you should see a message about hitting a certain key to enter the BIOS. It is usually the DEL key. Once you are in BIOS find the setting, which may be found under something like "Advanced BIOS settings", and change the order so that your CD-ROM drive is the first boot device. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 146614 | 2003-05-22 22:44:00 | A minor point but I would probably make the Floppy Drive the first boot option, the CDROM the 2nd and hard disk Drive the 3rd and subsequent boot option(s). But that's just me... Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 146615 | 2003-05-22 23:58:00 | I like the new AMI Bios which you can press F8 to get a boot menu and choose which device you want to boot from. As for which order you want to boot from is totally up to you, with me I just have my IDE boot first since it speeds up the process rather than being told each one of my CDROM drives doesn't have a bootdisk. If I had to boot from another drive then I press F8 at the boot screen and select out of Network/Floddy/CDROM/IDE. Very handy I thought. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 146616 | 2003-05-22 23:59:00 | I spelt floppy wrong :P | Kame (312) | ||
| 146617 | 2003-05-23 02:16:00 | just put the cd in and on the second screen of the boot up it should tell u to press any key to boot from cd rom simple as that! |
attaboy999 (3517) | ||
| 146618 | 2003-05-23 05:12:00 | That depends on your bios and if the cd is set in the bios to be first boot device. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 146619 | 2003-05-23 08:26:00 | I thought it was always safest to have your bios set out like this for general use: 1st boot: hd0 2nd boot: cd-rom 3rd boot: floppy Saves about 5secs on boot up and stops those boot viruses and all ;) Plus if you only have a password on the bios settings, at least someone can't come along and install a new OS or stuff your hard drive by doing something nasty with a boot cd/floppy. (I could delete your hard disk in 1min flat if I had physical access and you had it set to boot floppy/cd) Of course I just change the settings manually when I need to boot from cd/floppy which is pretty rare :) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 146620 | 2003-05-23 09:32:00 | Actually it is safer to only have the HD booting. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 146621 | 2003-05-23 12:43:00 | yeh but i currently use my computer for gaming and the floppy gets in the way so ive taken it out so if i change the order to cdrom in front ittl be ok??? | unknown (2981) | ||
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