Help with booting of CD

"Per" wrote in message
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Hey, i just got a Packard Bell from a friend of mine, don't know
which
model. The hardware in the machine is 450mhz, 128mb ram, and a
maxtor
harddrive. it should be from around the year 2000.

The problem iam haveing is that i cant boot a cd, i don't know which
bios i
got. The information in the bio says "AMERICAN MEGATRENDS EASY
CONFIGURATION
1.6", but "American Megatrends" says i got a NEC bios. So iam
unsure, i have
edited the boot list, so it should boot the cdrom.

But it dont, any help regarding this would be grateful.



Hi Per:

You mean you want to "boot from a diskette" depending on what version
of Windows you may have you need to make a boot disk from the OS.
Since I don't know what your actual OS is you can go he
http://www.bootdisk.com and take a formatted diskette into the floppy
drive and then download the Windows 98 or Windows ME boot disk with
the full Oak drivers for cd rom support.

Now in the BIOS you must set the sequence to a-c-cd rom not many
systems boot from the cd rom unless they are Windows XP or NT.

Good luck.

I hope I helped?

Elector