That's of course true. I havn't yet seen a homebuilt that couldn't
boot to an XP CD. I do, however, sometimes see brand new big brand
PCs that come with the XP "cd" on the hard drive and just wont boot
from their cdrom even tho of course that function is built in, and
has been for many years. I cant explain it really, tho I can only
guess that some big brands in their rush to get things out and also,
their tending to use whatever cd drive is cheapest that week they
buy to install, and just dont spend the time to actually test if their
continuing changing mix of hardware actually works for every feature.
Think about it. Why do I get calls from folks with brand new D***s
sometimes, for example, only a day old, but they dont want to
spend the time on tech support on the phone or wait 3 days for the
makers tech to come over, so they call my co. to get a tech over
right away because they cant install any software? Often turns out
that they had a bad batch of drives. ie you could read the cd, copy
files from it, but it wont autorun or autoboot.
In essense you got me tho
If I had paid attention to the "soon to
be homebuilt" pc I would have saved my cocky comment for later
[grin] My peeve is that one cant assume that a persons PC will be
able to boot to CD. Booting to working floppy drive never fails tho,
assuming that you have one these days
ps in Catholic school I always got a C in conduct 5 years in a row,
every marking period. I owned the wooden stool in the front corner of
the room.
