A friend of mine just got a used laptop and gave it to me to re-install a fresh copy of windows.
I set the bios to boot from the CD-Rom first, then floppy, HDD and then network.
When it starts up It doesn’t do anything with the drive… just goes right into XP (home). Anyone ever have a problem like this? Know how you corrected it off hand? It did save the boot order in the bios ok, so that isn’t a problem.
Also, the thing would stay on for approx 30 mins, then shut it self off even on AC power. I figured it was heat related and blew all the dust/dog hair I could out of it with a can of compressed air… any suggestions for the if it does it again? (it’s been on now for about 15mins and no problems yet)