[draak]

Hello again!

Now, I have a very unusual problem. My friend brought me his brother's notebook (it's HP Compaq nx6110) to be reformated. So I put a windows cd in cd-rom, went to bios and select optical device to be first boot device, and notebook harddrive as second.
And a problem is that I save this configuration, but computer doesn't boots from cd! It just goes normally to windows!

EDIT: CD-Boot is under security tab enabled!

Thanks, for your help!
draak

[Officer Dibble]

You have to either find the Boot Sequence menu in your BIOS, or as it is typical on some computers, press F12 to get boot options while the computer is starting up.

[draak]

Yes, I know that, but my problem is that after I choose the right sequence (1.st optical device) I should be asked for pressing a random key to start booting from cd. But I don't. It seems that computer just skips/ignores boot from cd and it boots from hard drive. I heard that it's some kind of protection on those notebooks. I don't really know.