This is an older gateway solo 9550. Went in BIOS and set boot sequence to CD/DVD first and still will not boot. Just goes straight into windows. I checked the cd on another machine and it worked fine. Never ran into this issue before. Is there something else that could be happening????
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Can't boot off XP cd on laptop???
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I had a big Solo 9500 - and the optical drive was the first thing to fail. I replaced it. IUt would boot to a bootable CD OK. Somehow, yours is ignoring the BIOS request or . . . it is unable to fullfill it.
Try pulling the regular HDD and then see if it will boot from the CD. If it cannot - then chances are the optical drive has failed or is in the process of failing.
Does it boot from the floppy drive? (9500 had one.)
Try pulling the regular HDD and then see if it will boot from the CD. If it cannot - then chances are the optical drive has failed or is in the process of failing.
Does it boot from the floppy drive? (9500 had one.)