| Art Alexion on 10 Jan 2007 16:44:19 -0000 |
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On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:20, Tim Cwik wrote: > On 2007.01.05 21:29, Art Alexion wrote: > > I am trying to help a friend set up a new Compaq over the phone. I can't > > see > > his bios setup screens. > > .... > > > When he took it home and started it, it wants to boot from the IDE drive > > first, thus booting his old OS tuned for incompatible hardware. > > > > As he reads the bios screens to me, it seems he can change the boot > > sequence > > among the "floppy group", the "CD-Rom group" and the "HDD group", but he > > can't > > find a setting to change the sequence within these groups. > > ... > The is usually a way to select the group, perhaps with right arrow or > enter when the group is highlighted and then change the order of members > of the group. This lets you put ide-0, ide-1, etc in the order you want > them. That's what I was thinking, but he said "no" as I talked him through it over the phone. I am going to have to go over there and take a look myself. I was hoping someone might have had to deal with this on a Compaq recently. Thanks for the help. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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