--- Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 20:20, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > Austin Godber wrote:
> > 
> > > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for the response Austin. It doesn't say
> a thing just takes a 
> > >> little longer to boot then boots into WinME.
> I'm checking the 
> > >> Knoppix.net site now but so far doesn't seem to
> be anything specific 
> > >> to this laptop.
> > >
> > >
> > > So you don't even get the Knoppix Splash screen?
>  Can it boot of of 
> > > ANY CD?
> > >
> > > Austin
> > >
> > Nope can't boot from any screen. I called the
> gateway tech support and 
> > they informed me that there is a key to "force"
> the BIOS to boot from 
> > CD-ROM (I'm guessing they've had this problem
> before) The answer they 
> > gave me was to hold down the Esc key (F2 gave me
> the BIOS  settings) 
> > when I did that I did infact get a new menu which
> asked what did I want 
> > to boot from I selected the CD-ROM and then it
> attempts to boot, but 
> > WinME comes up in safe mode. I've tested the CD on
> other computers. I've 
> > made sure the cd drive actually works. So far I
> can't boot anything from 
> > CD-ROM (I'm temped to try to find a Win2K or XP
> disk and test that).
> ---
> if it's an older laptop, it might not like CD-R
> discs
> 
> Craig
>

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Yeah, the first thing I had to do to my old k6-2 350
(12/98 manufacture date) was get a new cdrom for it..
The old one doesn't read cdr's or any format that is
new.

IF you find it reads an MS O/S disk, that tells you
nothing as to reading cdr's. It has to do with the
'color' of the underside. MS disks are light colored
and cdr's are dark...the media is different and the
laser just doesn't read it from an old style.

Read that somewhere last summer when I encountered it.

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