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#1 User is offline   nshah786 

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  Posted 07 October 2004 - 09:04 AM

I have an image on a DVD and i would like to boot from an external USB DVD-ROM, how would i go about doing that?

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Posted 07 October 2004 - 10:47 AM

hope your motherboard suports it?

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Posted 07 October 2004 - 10:54 AM

hmm...how do i check...CMOS Settings?

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Posted 07 October 2004 - 02:24 PM

yup.
In my BIOS, it lists USB CDROM as an option. If it's there, it will boot. If it's not, if you have a spare CD, burn it and make it bootable. Put it in the DVD rom, set teh Mobo to the closest setting you see, and see if it works.

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