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On 15/08/10 12:24, Rob Beard wrote:
As I said, the same CD worked fine in my laptop. I will try the pause key idea. And it has worked in the past. That is how my current distro was installed on it.On 15/08/10 11:17, Neil Winchurst wrote:I have just checked the BIOS again, but before I read this email so I did not check the date. The boot sequence still shows the CD/DVD drive as the first one. Yet when I put a bootable CD into the drive before powering up it is still ignored. It goes straight to the hard drive. Strange. NeilYou could try pressing the Pause/Break key when the BIOS screen comes up for a couple of seconds, it may be that the DVD drive just takes a while to initialise. Or maybe the DVD drive is on the way out, or the CD is not working.
Does the PC boot via USB?
I have never tried. Come to think of it I did not see USB as an option in the BIOS boot list, so it could be that this particluar BIOS cannot work with USB.
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