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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tony who wrote (8843)	9/20/1999 8:07:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I'll throw in my 2 cents worth on the issue. Booting directly from the CD should work unless the BIOS is very old. Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD and that the channel that the CD is on (either Primary or secondary, master or slave)is set to Auto detect and it usually works. If on powerup, right after the POST, your system sees the CD drive, then it should work. Even if this doesn't work, a fresh install of NT from the 3 setup floppies should load the appropriate drivers for your HD and CD, so you really don't have to have DOS drivers for your CD. If you are missing the 3 install floppies, go to a dos prompt on a functioning 95/98 machine, put the NT CD in, go to the i386 directory on the CD drive, and type "winnt32 /ox". It will prompt you for 3 floppies and will recreate the startup disks. The command is "winnt /ox" from a 16 bit machine (anyone still have one of those around? :-) ) Good Luck Dan