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Infinite Reboot Loop! Please HELP!!
Hi guys. This is my first time here, so if I post in the wrong place or do something wrong, please just help me out
I have a problem with my secondary computer. Whenever I turn it on it boots, shows the BIOS, then goes black for about a second, then shows the bios again. Infinite reboot loop.
I had Windows 7 on here, and I read about the fix online. But there was another problem I ran into. I can't boot from a CD for whatever reason.
There's no "Press any key to boot from CD..." or anything at all.
My CD drive is totally fine. I have a load of them in my garage, and I've replaced it twice just to make sure.
In case this matters, I have 2 BIOSes. The first BIOS is for my GPU, which is a nVidia GeForce 6600. It's an old card, but it works, so no matter. I don't think that BIOS does anything really. Then after that there's a COMPAQ bios. I checked through the settings, and I couldn't see any reason it shouldn't be seeing the CD.
I've tried lots of different CDs, my Windows 7 install, my Windows XP install, Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, Chrome OS, nope. My CDs turned out to be ok.
Also, I am totally fine with wiping this drive. I just want to put Windows XP on it and make it function like a regular computer.
Any help will be extremely appreciated. Thanks so much.
~Evan