Dell Inspiron stuck on "press any key to boot from CD"

icant2lazy · 09-13-2008, 10:41 PM

like the title says im stuck one "press any key to boot from CD...."

This Dell is about a month young. It was just serviced for a new hard drive (as the old one wasn't being seen by the bios or any other computer for that matter). With the new drive i got to the desktop a few times.

Now when I turn it on I get stuck on the Dell logo for about 5 minutes (no exaggeration). I wanted to put XP on it anyway so I loaded that on and got rid of Vista. Figuring that this may help. Once the installation needed to reboot to finish installing.. the computer got stuck on "press any key to boot from CD"

i removed the battery on the motherboard in case that turned out to be the problem. it actually made it worse at first lol giving me a different error but now im back to being stuck on "press any key to boot from CD".

btw the hard drive has been in the computer only a couple days and yes i did remove the CD it came up with a white blinking line instead

dai · 09-14-2008, 02:21 AM

did you gather the xp drivers together for it before you started
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx
if the drive is sata did you load a controller driver with f6

icant2lazy · 09-14-2008, 05:52 AM

well thats the thing.. i haven't even been able to get to the desktop because the OS can't/ hasn't finished installing

dai · 09-14-2008, 08:42 AM

the f6 is used during the inicial install when it asks
do you wish to load 3rd party drivers
the inicial load goes into ram and it hands over to the hard drive on the first reboot
is this where it is stopping

09-13-2008, 10:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
icant2lazy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2 OS: nothing now	Dell Inspiron stuck on "press any key to boot from CD" like the title says im stuck one "press any key to boot from CD...." This Dell is about a month young. It was just serviced for a new hard drive (as the old one wasn't being seen by the bios or any other computer for that matter). With the new drive i got to the desktop a few times. Now when I turn it on I get stuck on the Dell logo for about 5 minutes (no exaggeration). I wanted to put XP on it anyway so I loaded that on and got rid of Vista. Figuring that this may help. Once the installation needed to reboot to finish installing.. the computer got stuck on "press any key to boot from CD" i removed the battery on the motherboard in case that turned out to be the problem. it actually made it worse at first lol giving me a different error but now im back to being stuck on "press any key to boot from CD". btw the hard drive has been in the computer only a couple days and yes i did remove the CD it came up with a white blinking line instead

09-14-2008, 02:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Dell Inspiron stuck on "press any key to boot from CD" did you gather the xp drivers together for it before you started http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx if the drive is sata did you load a controller driver with f6 __________________

09-14-2008, 05:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
icant2lazy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2 OS: nothing now	Re: Dell Inspiron stuck on "press any key to boot from CD" well thats the thing.. i haven't even been able to get to the desktop because the OS can't/ hasn't finished installing Last edited by icant2lazy; 09-14-2008 at 06:07 AM.

09-14-2008, 08:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Dell Inspiron stuck on "press any key to boot from CD" the f6 is used during the inicial install when it asks do you wish to load 3rd party drivers the inicial load goes into ram and it hands over to the hard drive on the first reboot is this where it is stopping __________________