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Title: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 04:36:23 AM

HI! Help please
XP media center 2005
I am unble to format my C drive;
and reinstall XP media center,
my Bios setting prevents this.
this is what I found:
first Boot Device Floppy
second boot device HD
third boot device cd rom.
there are no prompts I could follow.
I tried every thing I could think of.
but was unable to set the cd rom  as first boot.
olandra

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 08:01:05 AM

Did you hit return on it?  Try the - + signs should move it up or down.  Depends on your BIOS did you read the screen?

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 09:32:50 AM

Hi!
Thank you for your help;
I have tried what you recommended;
still no luck!
olandra

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 10:37:44 AM

Could you provide the BIOS information?

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 11:14:02 AM

hello Squall!
This is the information from my BIOS:
Version-AAC77641-103
Serial no.- FCFN44101259
Manufacture-Intel Corporation
Product-D845GVFN
tks:
R

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 11:46:27 AM

Where did you get this information?

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 12:21:42 PM

Hi Squall_01
I got this information on the first page of the BIOs.
This is not what you wanted?
I took another shot at this + - instructions.
this time it worked. But. It is disabled.
the page reads "A device enclosed in Parenthesis is has been disabled in the corresponding type.
(but all three devices are disabled)
I had the disc in the Cd rom booted twice, and
oth times the OS came up'
tks R

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 12:32:20 PM

Know I ran a google shearch an cant find anything.  Is this a custome build or just a regular machine?

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 12:41:04 PM

It's not a custome build, it's just a regular machine.
right off the shelf.
do you know how I can re-Enable this?
tks
R

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 12:46:06 PM

Should of thought of this before hand, when you go to exit it, does it say load defualt or something.  Should be where your asked if you want to save the changes made. 

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 01:06:41 PM

Yes!!
and I did agree to this,By pressing the enter key.
I thought in this case "Default" ment,
the setting would be the default setup.
do you think this is why it's disabled?
there has to be a way to enable this again;
tks
R

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 01:52:21 PM

??? It just sets it back to how it was when you had got it.  Any changes you made will be undone.  Taking out the cmos battery will do this too, its on the board its self an looks like the size of a quarter

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 03:41:32 PM

Thanks Squall_01!
I would be afraid to open up the the case.
I can't do that.
I don't know how else to get this CD to run.
you have been very helpful and I thank you.
R 

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 05:24:41 PM

Sorry if it still dont work an what not.  If you still have trouble just wait for some one else to drop a line.

Title: Re: adjusting positsion of boot devices in the bios
Post by: olandra on July 03, 2008, 05:36:14 PM

Hi Squa ll!
I'm sorry too!
the main thing is to get this disc in,
and doing what it's expected to do.
Thanks for your thoughts:
R