At 02:24 PM 09/01/2008, JRS wrote:
Weird behavior....
Re-installing Windows on an old Dell Dimension 2100 for a friend.
Boots fine to a Windows 2000 Pro CD, boots fine to an ERD 2005 CD,
but won't boot to a Windows XP Pro CD.
Tried 3 different drives and 4 different CD's, no joy with any of
them, and it
does read all the CD's fine after it boots to the currently
installed Windows.
The CD Drive light flickers as it's being read, but the PC goes
right past the CD
without even prompting "Hit Any key to boot from CD" like it does
for the others.
Is it possible for a BIOS to be so old it can boot from NT4
bootloaders, but not from NT5 bootloaders?
Or is there something else about the XP Pro CD's that is different
that the BIOS perhaps cannot handle?
I guess it's possible, but I've never seen it before. Can you boot
from a BartPE CD?
T
