Gateway BIOS

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Zorth
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Gateway BIOS

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Heyas all,

Basically, my brother's computer is a 5-year old gateway. He was running Windows ME on it, and recently it's been giving him trouble, such as lag, program crashes, etc. Anywho, he brought it over to have me reinstall, but we decided that XP would be a better choise of an OS.

I can't for the life of me get his BIOS to boot up using the XP CD. It's not giving an error or anything; I just can't figure out how to GET it to. I tried installing XP onto HIS hard drive by putting it into MY computer so it'd use MY BIOS, but, alas, when I put it back into his PC it would crash upon startup.

I must be either be extremely dense. If anyone has a CLUE how to get a Gateway BIOS to boot using a CD, please for the love of god help me out. :P

Thanks!
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Create bootable floppy with CDROM support then install XP.
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Post by Zorth »

What kind of name would a program such as that be given(I am assuming you mean download a program that will access the CD ROM, put it onto a disk, because the BIOS will detect a disk).
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Post by Zorth »

I believe I've found something. Thanks for the help --Didn't consider a boot disk--. I'll post back if I have trouble. :)
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Post by nickvd »

The problem is there due to the age of the machine, it was built before bootable cd drives were common place (and now-a-days, needed), one option would be to replace the system with a newer one ;)

or

Do what you've probably already done, and make a boot disk (http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm)

nb: Windows XP boot disk is indeed 6 disks... dont let that confuse you...
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