Re: Could this a mother board issue?

Either the XP CD is faulty, wrong type, whatever, or your CD ROM drive is
not playing ball.. how old is the drive?.. what type of XP CD do you have?

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Lorne" <stoner_123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e2tBkvJDGHA.1028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ok, removed all boot options other than cd rom..... no reading from the
> cd. tried the cd again in another computer and it booted up fine.....
> replaced the cd rom on the computer... same thing.
>
> "Lorne" <stoner_123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23hczt9IDGHA.1268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> thank you everyone..
>> 1) i tried the safe mode and last known config.... didnt work,
>> 2) tried pressing any key to get it to read from the cd... after a few
>> seconds, it tries the hard drive
>>
>> i will try to remove all options from the boot list and see what
>> happens,.... i will repost with the results
>>
>>
>> "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:D2A04B6F-001B-4F40-806C-D55A73F17A0E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> ometime s, maybe most, you have to hit any key on keybrd to get it to
>>> boot
>>> from CD!!
>>>
>>> "Lorne" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> i am assisting a neighbour with her computer (she's so cute, i couldnt
>>>> say
>>>> no to her)....
>>>> On boot up, she is getting the message:
>>>> missing or corrupt file: ntoskrnl.exe reinstall a copy of the above
>>>> file.....
>>>>
>>>> so after researching the net and newsgroups i thought i found the way
>>>> to
>>>> repair this.... easy enough, just boot from xp cd and use the repair
>>>> console.... BUT here is the problem.... i can not get the computer to
>>>> boot
>>>> from the cd rom!!!
>>>> I went into the bios and set boot priority to:
>>>> cd/rom 1st, floppy 2nd and ide hard drive 3rd (can't go wrong with
>>>> this,
>>>> right?) Using her windows xp, the computer says searching for boot
>>>> record
>>>> from cd.... then after sevceral seconds, changes to try to boot from
>>>> the
>>>> hard drive.....
>>>> Ok, i thought maybe the cd rom is not working...... so i put in a spare
>>>> cd
>>>> rom.... same thing..... took the cd and put it into a different
>>>> computer,
>>>> and the cd boots up......
>>>>
>>>> so, any idea of what my issue is all about???
>>>>
>>>> thank you all....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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