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Re: [LUG] Exeter College



On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> That said if a computer built since 1998 won't boot from CD when the
> BIOS settings are right, it probably has hardware problems. Is the BIOS
> update actually taking? i.e. set boot from CDROM in BIOS, save, switch
> off, wait 5 seconds, switch on, check BIOS settings to see it is still
> boot from CDROM.

One thing to remember is that some older CDROM drives will only handle
pressed CDROMs. If you are using CDRs (and especially CDRWs) such drives
won't believe they have a disk in.

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