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Dimension LxxR not boot from cdrom
Replacing hard drv and need to boot from cdrom to load Win XP , tried bios A14 , A12 , A02 and still no
tried making cdrom and hard drv cable select and no , tried cdrom and hard drv cable on same cable and no ,
tried cdrom and hard drv as master on seperate cables and no , tried other disk of win XP that work fine on other dell systems and still same , tried turing off floppy drv , tried disconnecting floppy , still no . tried another hard drv and no ..., Since I have flashed the bios already , I should have mentioned that , I have tried most all the Bios setting , making Cdrom first boot , turing off the floppy ..- - - Fixed problem myself --anybody needs to know , as shown in the Dell drivers this sys is not supported for Win XP , so that is why . I was able to boot off Win 98 SE cd or Win 2000 cd fine and load windows ... to load Win XP You have to load one of the other versions first then upgrade to XP ...So it will work but not load first from the CD ...
Thereal-dbk4297
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September 25th, 2008 22:00
Hello,
With the Lxxxr systems you need to hit Delete at startup.
The systems setup menu and options are shown HERE.
RonZam
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September 27th, 2008 14:00
osprey4
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September 27th, 2008 23:00
Hi, Ron:
You're trying some many things, you're going nowhere. :) Seriously, you have to try one thing at a time. So try this: