SUCCESS!! ok for some reason after removing the DIMM and the battery and rebooting didn't work so I went into the setup and selected only the CDrom as boot and not the internal hdd and it's currently going into the windows XP startup. So it looks like it's going to install.
So I tried to remove the DIMM and the battery. Waited a good 2 or 3 minutes in hopes that maybe something stuck in memory would be flushed out. I reboot and still get the CDBOOT: Memory overflow error.
ARRGGHHH!!! Just when I thought I was out of the woods.
Ok so I had this Windows XP CD but it seems it's not a good copy because it's asking for SP2 CD. Anyhow, I made a good bootable XP cd with SP2. However, Now I am back to my original post.
I have a formated Laptop that will not boot off the CD to install XP. I tested my CD in another PC and it worked fine.
I swear this darn laptop has different results when using the same bios settings. Is it possible for a PC to have a poltergeist? :P
So I noticed that all my XP CDs were on Sony CD-Rs. But the Disk CLeaner was on a Imation brand CD-R. I figured this cd-rom might not read Sony brand CD-R. I brought a RiData brand CD-R from home and it still does not work.
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