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  • Why should XP require TWO different boot partitions to boot from SCSI?

    XP boots fine from SCSI disk, but *ONLY* if there's another XP boot partition elsewhere! Brief Description: XP will boot perfectly from my SCSI disk *ONLY* if there's another XP boot partition on some other drive! If the SCSI boot partition is the only one in the system, it will not boot correctly...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 03-04-2010

  • HP dv9000 Vista laptop won't boot from CD/DVD drive

    My HP dv9000 Vista laptop recently got the BSOD with error 0x0000c1f5. The only way to fix this error is to be able to boot from CD/DVD and use some repair software I have. The problem is that the laptop REFUSES to boot from any CD/DVD I try. I've changed the boot order so the CD/DVD is first, and...
    Posted to PC Laptops (Forum) by hardware on 02-26-2010

  • Strange NIC issue when using PXE boot with Symantec Ghost and Microsoft Sysprep

    Hi, Hopefully somebody has seen this before. I have a PXE server working that serves out a pxe menu. This menu by default chooses to boot from the local hard drive but also has the option for the client machine to boot to a symantec ghost console client network image. This works fine. After booting into...
    Posted to Network Adapters (Forum) by hardware on 01-17-2010

  • Can't boot from DVD on Dell PowerEdge 830

    Trying to boot from a DVD on a Dell PowerEdge 830 (about 3 years old) and it's not working. I get the "press any key to boot from the CD" message, but then it goes straight into an option to boot the operating system or from the mirror disk. I know the keyboard works, but I can get into...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-23-2009

  • Cisco wireless access point booting problems

    Hi I am very new to Cisco IOS. i have a cisco aironet c1130ag wireless access point, i accidentaly deleated the IOS from the flash and it does not boot up. i have a copy of the IOS on my PC but iam not able to load the IOS back on to the access point. can someone help me how i can get the wireless point...
    Posted to Routers (Forum) by hardware on 12-19-2009

  • Bios beeps/wont boot

    HP a220n I don't know how the problem started or the history of the machine. Would not power on, put in a new power supply and now will turn on but monitor does not activate and cant hear hard drive doing anything. 2 short and 6 long beeps. found a sticker on the motherboard that says amibios 686...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-16-2009

  • Compaq presario SR2013WM strange booting behavior

    I am having the absolute strangest issue with a compaq presario SR2013WM that I am attempting to fix for a friend. I am reinstalling windows on the machine after a bad virus infection. When I first plugged in the machine after getting it from my friend, it booted into windows install. Then I realized...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 11-30-2009

  • BIOS keeps changing the hard drive it boots from

    well, im a comp tech, and this one has had me stumped for months..... I run an HTTP server, with Win2k. It has two hard drives. C, and D:. D: is the drive I run all the software, OS, etc. off of. C:\ is just another drive on the comp, and I use it for storage. I also have Win2k installed on this drive...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 10-30-2009

  • Unmountable_Boot_Drive Error - have tried several methods for recovery.  What else?

    A client of mine has a Dell PC that when it boots up, gives the blue screen of death and says "Unmountable Boot Drive". The OS is XP Media Center Edition. This hard drive is actually partitioned into two drives, and the secondary partition (ironically enough which is a Backup drive for Norton...
    Posted to Disaster Recovery (Forum) by hardware on 10-09-2009

  • CANNOT GET INTO BIOS

    CPU INTEL|C2D E7400 2.8G 775 RT MB ASUS P5Q TURBO 775 P45 RT VGA HIS H467QSS1GP HD4670 1GB RT MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-6400C5 R DVD BURN HP|1170I 22X LS BK RTL HD 500G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD5000AAKS PSU BFG|MX 550 550W RT Hi everybody. I have been trying for days and days and cannot get this to work. I recently...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 10-09-2009
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