Try using floppy setup disks...Download from MS. Should work..
Bill
JRS wrote:
Weird behavior....
Re-installing Windows on an old Dell Dimension 2100 for a friend.
Boots fine to a Windows 2000 Pro CD, boots fine to an ERD 2005 CD, but won't
boot to a Windows XP Pro CD.
Tried 3 different drives and 4 different CD's, no joy with any of them, and it
does read all the CD's fine after it boots to the currently installed Windows.
The CD Drive light flickers as it's being read, but the PC goes right past the
CD
without even prompting "Hit Any key to boot from CD" like it does for the
others.
Is it possible for a BIOS to be so old it can boot from NT4 bootloaders, but
not from NT5 bootloaders?
Or is there something else about the XP Pro CD's that is different that the BIOS perhaps cannot handle?
And of course, the latest BIOS for this old thing is from 2001. :)
