Re: Old motherboard doesn't allow boot from cdrom option?


"Keith" <keith_teri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine has an old computer with a soyo motherboard (don't
> know version).... when he enters the bios he does not see an option to
> "boot from cdrom".....
>
> Is this just a matter of updating the BIOS to recognize cdroms?
>
> Ideas?
>
> Keith
>


I never tried it but this *might* work

http://btmgr.webframe.org/


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