[gnowk]

Hi all, I'm having trouble booting from my CD-ROM at startup. I changed my boot sequence to CD-ROM, but it says (ATAPI boot CD failure), something like that... then it just skip to boot from my harddrive. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem?? Thanks a lot guys..

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IS the CD you're trying to boot from actually bootable? Does it have the necessary boot files on it?

[Jack Hackett]

IS the CD you're trying to boot from actually bootable? Does it have the necessary boot files on it?

[gnowk]

yes, it's the Windows XP CD. I did this long time ago and it worked, but now I get this error message

[crash override]

Is the cd scratched?

[gnowk]

no, nothing wrong with the CD, cable, power, etc.. is something wrong with my computer

[Neil Jones]

CD Unit problem most likely.

If you have more than one CD drive, put the CD in the other drive - most computers will usually, when told to boot off CD, try every CD unit it can find instead of having to be told to try a specific one.