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Help: Computer does not boot initially from CD

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poshan Original post #1
Nov 9, 2007 at 3:34 PM
I have a P4 computer with 3.06 ghz processor and 512 ddr2 ram. and 80 GB harddisk, 946 GZIS motherboard.
I couldnt detect the cause of the problem. The problem is when I try for new installation of Windows XP from the beginning, my computer does not shows the Press any key to boot from cd.....
So, I cant have a new installation of either XP or Live Linux CDs.
How can I solve this problem? Anyone help me to get out of this.
praka123
praka123 #2
Nov 9, 2007 at 4:02 PM
u might have done this already..but
go to BIOS by press del or f10 and make sure in boot device priority ur DVD/CD drive is set as first device.