sil Posted June 28, 2007 Report Posted June 28, 2007 Never saw the part about CDs not working period. In theory, you could do the same off of a flash drive. You'd just have to tell the comp in the BIOS to boot from USB and give it high priority. You could try any of the cd ISOs. But really, this sounds like hardware problems.
Emblazon Posted June 29, 2007 Author Report Posted June 29, 2007 i do have an external cd burner, but ever trying to boot from usb, it doesnt seem to detect the cd inside
sil Posted June 29, 2007 Report Posted June 29, 2007 (edited) Do you have a flash drive/USB key/whatever people call it these days? That's more along the lines I meant. Also, did you make sure that your BIOS is set to boot from USB? and that it has higher priority than IDE and what not? (may not need to set the priority part, but coudln't hurt!) make sure to undo this afterwards too >.> <.< Edited June 29, 2007 by sil
rootbear75 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Posted June 29, 2007 priority or boot order but dude, the only thing you can do is try the knoppix thing (i think uBuntu also has a cd-only version, not 100% sure)
Emblazon Posted June 30, 2007 Author Report Posted June 30, 2007 ive probably got some usb jumpdrives sitting around somewhere. and yes, i pub the usb as first in boot order, didnt work. rootbear, a knoppix cd isnt going to work, as no cd has worked yet.
sil Posted July 1, 2007 Report Posted July 1, 2007 hmm, I'm outta ideas if a flash drive doesn't work. It's very odd that CDs are not working. Does it give you a specific error code? Like I said earlier, this is sounding like hardware problems as there should not be problems reading from a CD at that stage. Is the laptop on warrenty still?
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