I have an old Dell dimension xps t500. At the boot screen it detects my LTN-483S cd drive and my HDD.
I set up in the bios to boot from the cd 1st. I put in a bootable cd in the drive. However, it skips it and goes straight to the HDD. I updated the BIOS and updated the firmware of the cd drive. Still no go. I tried smart boot manager, but I only get "Disk error! 0xAA" when I select to boot from the CD.
So any pro tips?
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Anonymous2008-01-02 2:31
Strangely enough I keep seeing the same thing with a lot of different computers. Sometimes a computer will even refuse to boot from an original DVD while booting from a self burned DVD works fine.
So no, I don't really have anything helpful to say, except: If you're desperate, try burning a copy of the disc or download the iso and burn it. Maybe it will boot that one.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 15:44
OP here
I plugged in a 2nd CD drive, it also shows up in the BIOS and boot.
ATAPI CD-ROM: HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B-(SS)
I put a cd in each drive and it did not boot any of the cds. I loaded up smart boot manager and both drives showed up. I picked the 2nd drive and "Disk error! 0xAA" showed up. However, I got angry and held the enter button. It kept flashing the same error until it eventually stopped and loaded up! It went to he loading linux blah blah, but then it restarted and went back to the boot screen. I was so close!
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Anonymous2008-01-02 16:09
It seems when I actually get to the cd to boot it tells me: