Re: boot from cd

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From: Michael Stevens (mstevens_at_bogusmvps.org)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:30:18 -0700

stephen crawford wrote:
> Hi yes the splash screen comes up with the bit about asking for
> password when i press ESC the caption box dissapeared nothing
> happened so i rebooted how long does it take to get the boot from cd
> up
> steve

The splash screen I am talking about is immediately at boot up. Do you see
the specifications of your hard drives, memory, CD drives etc.? If not press
ESC immediately after pressing the power button. 

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> "Michael Stevens" <mstevens@bogusmvps.org> wrote in message
> news:O7s2o1lqEHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Andre Da Costa wrote:
>>> Yes, you can. Setup the CD-ROM Drive to be first drive that you boot
>>> from.
>>> See link:
>>> http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/bootSequence-c.html
>>>
>>> Andre
>>
>> He said he did all that in his original post.
>>
>> Now how about you double click on your time in the TRAY and fix your
>> TIME ZONE.
>>
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>>> "stephen crawford" <stephenlewis@crawford72.freeserve.co.uk> wrote
>>> in message news:OwoJ4plqEHA.3800@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>> hi.  is it possible to boot from an  xp upgrade cd as i seem to be
>>>> having a
>>>> problem....bios is set to boot from cd first but it just ignores it
>>>> and loads xp
>>>> steve
>>>>
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