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Subject: Bios help
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chr1s84 23.03.10 - 05:06pm
Hi guys, i have my friends laptop n i'm trying to reinstall xp on the machine since his dads m8 put vista on it n its only 512mb of ddr1 lol. Its a Packard Bell EasyNote R1400, in the bios it states the beet from cd/dvd is disabled, n ive been tryin for 30mins now to enable it but no luck, anyone klnow how 2 enable.. Its a really old bios * +

chr1s84 23.03.10 - 05:46pm
I'm into vista on it n its mega slow.. Also it dosn't see any cd drive * +

chr1s84 23.03.10 - 06:35pm
Plz some1 help * +

ionc 23.03.10 - 06:37pm
il hawe the same problema the pc dont see the cd drive after l restart the bios * +

chr1s84 23.03.10 - 06:52pm
I'm gonna update the bios, see if that helps, its just so fkin slow with 512mb n running vista ultimate 64bit.. I'd love 2 know who done it, wat a d*ck * +

chr1s84 23.03.10 - 06:56pm
wouldn't update coz its an xp laptop, n the bios for xp, well i'm lost, it wont even boot from a usb stick i just get an error, also cant boot from usb cd drive * +

newt182 23.03.10 - 07:06pm
Its not the best idea to update the BIOS from windows anyway. Obviously you need to boot from disk/USB to flash from DOS. Are you sure you have tried everything you can think of in the BIOS settings to get it to boot from disk? * +

chr1s84 23.03.10 - 07:10pm
Yup n there is not alot 2 choose from.. I'm gonna see if i can erase the HDD n try boot from usb, but it might now be safe, might not work n then it will have no operating system * +

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