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Funcrazy1 · 3 Weeks Ago

Hey guy's I'm trying to format my other computer and put Winxp. It see's the disc but it does not say press any key to boot from Disc it just does the ... period thingy and just restart it self. I've put the disc in my Gaming rig and it boots from it why does the other not boot it up from it? I also check bios to make sure boot first is my Dvd drive so confused...... I just burnt this disc that I got from MSDN ugh......

TwoCables · 3 Weeks Ago

What do you mean by the "... period thingy"? Can you elaborate?

Also, when does it reboot itself? It sounds like there might be something wrong with it if it's rebooting itself.

J-vibe · 3 Weeks Ago

Can you use the DVD Drive from your gaming rig?

Funcrazy1 · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by TwoCables

What do you mean by the "... period thingy"? Can you elaborate?

Also, when does it reboot itself? It sounds like there might be something wrong with it if it's rebooting itself.

It reboots when I have disc in it never says press any button to boot from disc.
Ok it goes like this Boot from CD:_ that over and over then after awhile it reboots

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Originally Posted by J-vibe

Can you use the DVD Drive from your gaming rig?

It would be to much of a hassle it has cable management with duct tape all over ugh life is so hard.. The reason I'm doing this computer has so much Trojan malware and ad ware. I've been trying to remove it all with Spybot and search every time i hit fix repair i get this error. c:/Windows/System32/etc/hosts is accessible ugh

TwoCables · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Funcrazy1

It reboots when I have disc in it never says press any button to boot from disc.
Ok it goes like this Boot from CD:_ that over and over then after awhile it reboots

It would be to much of a hassle it has cable management with duct tape all over ugh life is so hard.. The reason I'm doing this computer has so much Trojan malware and ad ware. I've been trying to remove it all with Spybot and search every time i hit fix repair i get this error. c:/Windows/System32/etc/hosts is accessible ugh

But the hosts file is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

Either way, though: just unplug the drive from your system, leave the cables as they are, and put it in the system that might benefit from it. If that doesn't work, then the other system might have more serious problems. I mean, I just can't imagine why it would be rebooting like that.

Funcrazy1 · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by TwoCables

But the hosts file is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

Either way, though: just unplug the drive from your system, leave the cables as they are, and put it in the system that might benefit from it. If that doesn't work, then the other system might have more serious problems. I mean, I just can't imagine why it would be rebooting like that.

Lol I did that once you posted it thanks alot +rep

TwoCables · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Funcrazy1

Lol I did that once you posted it thanks alot +rep

hehehe it's all good. I've been there so many times myself where my anger or frustration overwhelmed me too much thereby blinding me from seeing certain possibilities or something.

I just hope that this is the solution. Yikes. I'd hate to see that the hard drive is dying or something worse.

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