[dairyglen]

Have problem with not being able to install xp pro on a dell d600 laptop, press f12 to access what to boot up from and highlight cdrom.

Screen appears stating press any key to boot then nothing happens just a cursor flashing top left hand corner ??

Can the laptop be formatted to install a fresh copy of xp, if so how ???

Cheers

Edited by dairyglen, 10 January 2008 - 05:25 PM.

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This isn't clear from your post but you have pressed a key when it asks you to press a key? Otherwise it'll just try and boot off the hard drive again.

[Neil Jones]

This isn't clear from your post but you have pressed a key when it asks you to press a key? Otherwise it'll just try and boot off the hard drive again.

[dairyglen]

Yes i pressed a key when asked and all i got was a blank screen with a cursor flashing top left hand corner and it just stays like that ?

[dairyglen]

Just gone into the bios and found that the section where you can change what to use to start up i.e hardrive,cd,floppydisk is password protected so cannot change !!!!

Anyway to overcome/getaround this ?? as said already used the f12 key and booted from cd but nothing happens, think its because of the password in the bios ?????

[Neil Jones]

Shouldn't make any difference.
How old is this laptop? These symptoms are could be a sign of faulty hardware somewhere along the line.

[dairyglen]

Its a dell d600, it will start up but goes into safeboot 3.3 and asks for an activcard to be inserted into the pcmcia card slot at the side which i dont have !!

anyway around the card reader ???

Edited by dairyglen, 12 January 2008 - 11:06 AM.

[wannabe1]

I'm afraid we have gone about as far as we can in helping you with this issue. This machine has some pretty stringent security set on it and, without being able to verify ownership, our Terms of Use prevent us from helping you get around the restrictions that have been placed upon it.

If you think I'm in error in closing this topic, please feel free to PM a moderator or admin and we'll be happy to discuss it with you.