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Armada M700 laptop problems
Hi all,
I have two questions: 1. how do I get the battery out of this thing? 2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive since that choice does not show up in the boot list inside the cmos? thanks, charles..... |
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Armada M700 laptop problems
Hi all,
I have two questions: 1. how do I get the battery out of this thing? 2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive since that choice does not show up in the boot list inside the cmos? thanks, charles..... I figured out number 1. Number 2 is a lot tuffer. The only choices in the cmos a detatchable bay, hard drive and net boot. If I could get it to boot to the dvd drive I could reinstall the OS. Any suggestions? thanks, charles...... |
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Armada M700 laptop problems
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:41:57 GMT, "***** charles"
wrote: Hi all, I have two questions: 1. how do I get the battery out of this thing? 2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive since that choice does not show up in the boot list inside the cmos? thanks, charles..... I figured out number 1. Number 2 is a lot tuffer. The only choices in the cmos a detatchable bay, hard drive and net boot. If I could get it to boot to the dvd drive I could reinstall the OS. Any suggestions? What happens if you tell it to boot from the detachable bay? If you are dealing with an internal DVD drive, it is probably in the detachable bay. If you are dealing with an external USB drive, you probably won't be able to boot from it. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Armada M700 laptop problems
"***** charles" wrote in message m... Hi all, I have two questions: 1. how do I get the battery out of this thing? 2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive since that choice does not show up in the boot list inside the cmos? thanks, charles..... I figured out number 1. Number 2 is a lot tuffer. The only choices in the cmos a detatchable bay, hard drive and net boot. If I could get it to boot to the dvd drive I could reinstall the OS. Any suggestions? thanks, charles...... Detachable Bay = bay the DVD Drive is in..... Bobby |
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Armada M700 laptop problems
"NoNoBadDog!" wrote in message news:Et2dnexdFM0BM2vZnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net... "***** charles" wrote in message m... Hi all, I have two questions: 1. how do I get the battery out of this thing? 2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive since that choice does not show up in the boot list inside the cmos? thanks, charles..... I figured out number 1. Number 2 is a lot tuffer. The only choices in the cmos a detatchable bay, hard drive and net boot. If I could get it to boot to the dvd drive I could reinstall the OS. Any suggestions? thanks, charles...... Detachable Bay = bay the DVD Drive is in..... Bobby Thanks for the responses guys. I chose the "go back to factory defaults" in the cmos and it gave me a message saying hit any key to boot from the cd. After that it booted to the Windows 2000 Pro OEM cd just fine. Nice little laptop but it runs a little hot. later..... |
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