so my friend got a p4 (or athlon 64, not sure) that wont boot from anything

[borat_sagdiyev]

my friend bought a p4 or athlon 64 (didnt check because didnt boot, but we can tell from the size of teh heatsink) from a garage sale for 10 bucks. when he tries to boot up from windows cd (even when bios is set to boot from CD first), it says "error, boot error, please insert system disk and press enter". im going over there tomorow to have a look at it, maybe upgrade it a bit, u know.

So what should i do to it to make it work??

 

[X1337]

must be a bad windows xp c.d.. I get those somtimes.. and wtf are you talking about a heatsink so random

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

i said that we could tell what class of processor it was from the size of the heatsink

 

[X1337]

well, didnt you ask your friend to alest look in the BIOS to see what type of cpu. Mine tells me the type of cpu it has installed

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

yeah i did, but we were looking in the bios for something else...lol. didnt notice

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

bump

 

[X1337]

Try diffrent c.d romharddrivers etc

 

[Jamxx]

Have you cleared the CMOS? You never know... it might just work.