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Dell Inspiron won't boot from CD-ROM

post #1 of 3
1/6/09 at 5:22pm
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Hi,

I need to boot my DELL Inspiron 12500(PP02L) with a Bootable CD. However, everytime I'm booting, it straight goes and boots WinXP.

I tried F12 when booting and it doesn't do anything - WinXP boots up without giving me an option of any kind.

I even tried F2 and it took me to the BIOS.
I see Removable media and it has 'Hard Disk', 'CD-ROM', 'Intel....
'Hard Disk' is selected, but when I move down to CD-ROM and press enter, nothing happens. With 'CD-ROM' selected, I press F10 to save and exit. The computer boots up, but it does not boot from the CD-ROM. It just loads WinXP again from the Hard Disk.

Pls help.
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post #2 of 3
1/7/09 at 9:09am
sounded like you missing the F5 or F6 to move an entry up and down the selection. Try your bios boot set up again.

cheers ..
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post #3 of 3
1/7/09 at 1:47pm
Are you holding the F12 key down? If not give it a couple taps when you see "Press F2 to enter setup Press F12 for boot menu." You're not supposed to hold down the key.

If the F12 boot menu still doesn't work right for you try pressing F2 to enter BIOS setup and change boot order to CDROM first. The only reason Dell doesn't set it that way by default is that it shaves a second or two off the boot time.
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