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January 10th, 2005 18:00

Will not boot from CD drive.

When i try to boot from a cd on my dimension 4100, it ignores the cd. It is the windows xp disc that came from dell. I have reconfigured the BIOS that the CD should boot first and this has not worked. Also, I have tried to remove the HD completely from the boot order and I jsut get an invalid boot diskette error, please insert boot disc in A:. How do i get it to recognize a CD as a boot method? Should i update the BIOS? Other suggestions?

Message Edited by dabomb18 on 01-10-2005 02:10 PM

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    Posted January 11th, 2005 00:00

    Reset your ram chips. Take them out and put them back in. When I first got my dimension 4100 last year I had the opposite problem and this worked for me. May work for you. Make sure you completely power off of course.