[laptoper1]

Thinkpad G40 boots only to C drive. A bootable CD does not boot, it goes directly to the C drive. Thinkpad does read off of CD's making me believe the cd/dvd drive is OK. Please don't tell me I have a motherboard issue! But I'm thinking boot rom.

 

[koala]

Go into BIOS, change the Boot Order setting to 'CD First', hit F10 to save settings and exit.

 

[laptoper1]

Go into BIOS, change the Boot Order setting to 'CD First', hit F10 to save settings and exit.

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I can't even get into bios. I hold down the ACCESS IBM button as you normally would and it just goes right to the c drive. I've tried removing the battery. I don't know what else to do to get into bios or get it to boot a cd. Please suggest something else if you would.

 

[joeten]

You may be missing the time scale it is usually just a few seconds that you have to get it right or you have to begin all over

 

[surbana2]

Agree with joeten's reply. u may press F1/ blue Access IBM button continously after ur laptop starts to boot up... By then, U should able to enter the bios startup menu.
Change the boot sequence with local disk 'C', followed by cd/DVD drive and floppy drive 'A'...