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My PC was bought with installed OEM XP in 2002. Now I am going to apply SP2 from a CD that I got from Microsoft. What are the exact steps to get into the BIOS then see that the setting(s) is correct? I tried F8 on start up but that was a blind alley. (p4 1.8Ghz 512 Ram Sony DVDROM)
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Why would you do this?
All I ever needed to do was:
1. Make sure there was no spyware, virus or other issues.
2. Put in the Microsoft SP2 update CD and let it run.
Bob
I have been told to prepare a bootable CD in case there was a screw-up and I needed to recover/restore the system.
First up I was going to do just as you say.
I wrote my response because the topic and subject did not match. But the usual setting is in the BIOS and what may happen is as CD/DVD drives age they may lose their booting capability. A CD/DVD lens cleaner might help, new firmware might help but better than 90% of the time I get to replace the drive.
Bob
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