PC won't boot from Cd to install OS

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StanleyTodd

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#101333 29-Apr-2012 09:29

Hoping somebody can guide me in the right direction here, been trying to rebuild my desktop and finally got the motherboard to boot and get into the bios. However now I can't it to boot from the CD to install windows. On a side note I have installed 4x4 Gb ram and wondering if x64bit OS is the right way to go? Cheers Stan

Oldhat

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#616865 29-Apr-2012 09:49

Without knowing what error message you are getting it is hard to say.

I would suggest changing the bios boot sequence so the the first boot drive is the CD and second is the hard drive.

A 32 bit OS only recognizes approximately 3.2 GB of RAM so with 16 GB you must use a 64 bit OS.

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#616868 29-Apr-2012 09:54

You should either change the boot order in the BIOS or hit a function key when booting to change the boot device at that time.

If the boot order is changed and a bootable CD is present some BIOS will show a message on screen on the lines of "Press any key to boot from CD" otherwise it will go looking for the HDD.

StanleyTodd

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#617244 30-Apr-2012 09:25

Thanks guys, after all that worked backwards and found the iso wasnt working. reburnt and im sorted.

Cheers
Stan

robertsona

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#617270 30-Apr-2012 10:03

Just BTW, I had an experience a couple of years back where I tried to flash a BIOS firmware update and it just locked up frozen. Couldn't boot, get in to the BIOS, couldn't roll back firmware version, couldn't anything. Eventually it was discovered that if a pair of RAM cards was removed, everything worked sweetly - able to update the BIOS, then put the full RAM complement back in in.