Re: Operating system not found

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From: Mike Hall (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:24:46 -0500

"D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c2ael1$1qflel$1@ID-193095.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> "MM" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:41C4D4CF-83BC-4F2C-AD7B-DDB18B39C96F@microsoft.com...
> > My computer (HP Laptop w/Windows XP Homeseems to be trying to boot from
a
> network every time I start it. I get a message about searching for a
> "Client Mac addr" and then it eventually says "Operating System not
found."
> HP told me to try to do a "Repair" from some Windows XP Recovery CD, but
> every CD I have tried does not have this option. Am I using the right
CD's?
> I am more than willing to buy one. Any ideas? Obviously, I'm not
entirely
> technically savvy.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Nice to see that HP doesn't know simple answers to their hardware issues.
>
> Where the computer boots from first is not a function of the operating
> system, as the operating system hasn't even been looked at yet. The boot
> order is set in the bios.
>

It is attempting to boot from a network as no other bootable device has been
found, regardless of its bios boot order..

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