I am trying to reinstall windows xp to fix a major virus/spyware problem on my daughter's computer.
The system will not boot from cd.
I have tried the disk in another system, and it works fine.
I have tried three different cd drives, no change.
I have swapped the ide cable with a brand new one, no change.
I have swapped ide ports on the mobo, no change.
The drive does appear in the BIOS, and I have set the cd as the primary boot drive.
I have even disabled the other boot drives. (All this gets me is a system beep and a message to press F1 to try booting again.)
The drive does not spin at boot, but it spins endlessly when I try to look at it using windows explorer.
This is an older Dell system with a P4 1G chip on what appears to be a Dell mobo.
What next?
The system will not boot from cd.
I have tried the disk in another system, and it works fine.
I have tried three different cd drives, no change.
I have swapped the ide cable with a brand new one, no change.
I have swapped ide ports on the mobo, no change.
The drive does appear in the BIOS, and I have set the cd as the primary boot drive.
I have even disabled the other boot drives. (All this gets me is a system beep and a message to press F1 to try booting again.)
The drive does not spin at boot, but it spins endlessly when I try to look at it using windows explorer.
This is an older Dell system with a P4 1G chip on what appears to be a Dell mobo.
What next?