quick urgent help needed...

[zimu]

yes i've set it in my bios to look for the CD ROM first. it spins up the cd, you can tell its detected, but then it does the regular boot.

cd is definitely a boot cd, tried on another pc it went striaght to 'press any key to boot from cd'

any way to force boot from cd??

its a sony vaio PCG-V505MP

cheers

ps. yes wrong forum, sorry but i need the help pretty soon.

 

[biostud]

have this computer ever been able to boot from a CD? Older CD-drives didn't support booting from a CD.

 

[zimu]

i don't know, its a cousin's computer that isn't booting into XP.... a fairly recent computer so i doubt its got a non-supported cd drive
(its a cdrw/dvd combo drive)

 

[Insane3D]

Sometimes some optical drives take longer to "sense" the CD, and newer systems can go too fast for the drive. Try to set all boot devices, like 1st, 2nd 3rd, etc to CDROM, and disabe the option to try to boot from other sources, if it's there.

Another thing that sometimes works is disabling any quick boot feature so it actually scrolls through all the memory before it looks for boot sources.

 

Is it a master on that IDE channel? You can't boot from a slave CD-ROM...or at least I've never been able to on my system.

Check the jumpers.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Is it a master on that IDE channel? You can't boot from a slave CD-ROM...or at least I've never been able to on my system.

Check the jumpers.

Yes, you can boot from a slave. I'm not sure why that doesn't work on your system. Worth a try though...

 

[zimu]

btw, this is a laptop, so no confusions over slave etc. the system is set up with the factory configurations.

re: boot order (insane3d), i can't set multiple boot devices as the same thing. its one of those lists you can move stuff up and down...

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: zimu
btw, this is a laptop, so no confusions over slave etc. the system is set up with the factory configurations.

re: boot order (insane3d), i can't set multiple boot devices as the same thing. its one of those lists you can move stuff up and down...

Gotcha. If it's a CDRW, it's definately going to support booting from it, and especially if it's in the bios as a boot option. Is there any quick boot feature?

 

[zimu]

don't see any quick boot feature or anything. thats what i'm looking for really...

like some option to say "ctrl+b" on putting on the computer and having it say 'choose what device you wish to boot from'

i know dell has it, i've seen it a few times when i'm on the phone with the tech support people

 

[Insane3D]

Yeah...on the boot menu. I'm not sure what else you could try without having it in front of me...

Good luck!



Edit:

Are you sure that's the right model number? I input that on Sony's site, and came up with nothing..couple close...but not that.