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2nd boot from cd hangs up!

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by pikikoko

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I set the bios to boot from cd and booted up to install w2k. It boots up ok and starts the install. When the w2k install setup restarts the computer the boot from cd hangs up. The reboot just freezes on "boot from cd, hit any key" I reset the bios to not boot from the cd and it still hangs. Do I have a Bios problem or a cd rom problem? Or am I missing the boat here? What advice can you give to me. I need some ideas on what to try. Please walk me thru any ideas you may have. Thanks.

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by opatzg9

Is there a reason your loading w2k? like was there a virus on the pc or hard drive problems? That may still be the problem if that is the case.
Otherwise you could consider creating a boot disk downloading from bootdisk.com but if you got the cdrom to work once I don't think thats the problem, Is the boot sequence right counting partitions? If not start with just the c drive partitioned/formatted and no extended partitions till after operating system gets loaded.
Good Luck

by opatzg9

Any Luck with since the 18th? If this doesn't get more responses soon I'd close it out and reopen it so its' up at the top of the lists again. You should get more responses then!

by edsdave

If you are using an AGP video card then go to the BIOS setup and look for INITIAL DISPLAY and change to PCI SLOT until OS loads and then go back to BIOS and change initial display back to AGP.

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