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by mullanj21

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Hi, i'm running win98se. I have taken away the win98 splash screen and have noticed through all the goobldygook when the pc is booting, this message appears: "boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: failure, Starting Windows98". The pc starts fine everytime, no problems. I have re-installed the pc for a few unrelated reasons and it has been there also. I'm not sure what other info i can give. Its an OEM installed pc. I'm not sure what other info i can give. Any help on this is really appreciated. Cheer's. J.

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by dmiles

Boot computer,wwhen the startup screen appears,press the designated key to enter Bios Setup,look under boot drive order and to see if cdrom is listed first if so,you can change to hard drive

by maelgwyn

The boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: failure
message means that there isnt a bootable
CD in the drive. It doesnt affect the PC in ANY
way. Personally, just ignore it, itll do nothing

Its there so you can use the bootable recovery
CDs...

Maelgwyn

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