Boot dual XP/Vista problem Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss Boot dual XP/Vista problem in the Windows Vista forums; You do not need any device to boot into the BIOS...Take the BIOS battery out. It's a CR2032 button cell. Remove it. Wait 10 minutes. Don't put ...

[Snuffy]

You do not need any device to boot into the BIOS...Take the BIOS battery out. It's a CR2032 button cell. Remove it. Wait 10 minutes. Don't put the battery back in. Plug the system back in. Boot it up. If it works fine without the battery, replace it.

Sorry I said 3 min.

Never have I not been able to boot into the BIOS unless the BIOS it self is DAMAGED ... almost every system has a DEFAULT setting... you either REMOVE the battery to reset or there are jumpers to short to reset...this is with over 20 years of computer work...
You do not need a Floppy.
you do not need a CD ROM.
you do not need a HD.
you do not need sound (but it helps) the BEEPS tell you what.
you do not need a OS.
place a bootable CD/DVD in your DVD drive. RESET the BIOS, and boot to DVD...

How does your manual tell you to RESET the BIOS to DEFAULT..???
Can you post all the info on your laptop.
make, model, part #, SN# ASUS is not enough.. I need more than that, Ill send to my Friend in ASUS.USA and see how to RESET the BIOS to DEFAULT..
If none of the above work...

[julien2]

My laptop is a ASUS G1-AK024C model.

Thank you for all your help !

It is very appreciated !

[crabby]

Well... I can't see how the BIOS is the issue if you haven't changed anything.

HOWEVER, if you are brave enough, the pins that reset the CMOS should be near the BIOS chip on the motherboard and they should be named.

You simply short them with a jumper... boot, and that resets your BIOS.

But surely we are getting too complicated here?

If you haven't done anything wrong, then I can't see how the BIOS has buggered itself. And if the BIOS is ok and you still can't boot then somethings is damaged.

I agree with snuffy about what isn't needed to boot. What is needed is CPU and RAM. If you have more than 1 RAM DIMM installed, try removing one and then the other to see if one of them is bust.

If anything like RAM or CPU are damaged, then you should go get it replaced.

Have you spoken to ASUS about this?

crabby

[Snuffy]

Place OS CD (Disc 1) in the optical drive first. Select the system to boot using optical drive from BIOS Menu.
Method 1: Set optical drive as first boot device from BIOS.
Method 2: Press [ESC] key to select boot device at system boot up.
You can use a Flash memory just like a FLOPPY....

You should continue to click F2 immediantly after you turnon to into BIOS.

He would not tell me how to reset the BIOS to default... but said it seems strange that if he used FLASH MEMORY like a floppy disk, and had no HD..
it should boot to flash drive or boot to DVD/CD.

[ewan_mclean]

Originally Posted by julien2

My laptop came with Vista preinstalled. I have no Vista CD, except for a recovery CD.

I wanted to install a dual-boot to use Windows XP as well.

My partitions were C: with Vista installed on it, D: with random data on it and E: being my CD/DVD reader. I created a new partition labelled F: using the integrated partition manager within Vista.

I then booted my computer with a Windows XP installation CD. I ran the installation normally (select a partition, then the installation program formats F - or so I thought). At that point, the installation program is supposed to reboot the computer and continue installation.

That's where it get complicated

No Vista boot, no XP installation program.

And my CD reader does not seem to work anymore. I cant boot from a CD...



I believe there was a messup with the partition labels...

What should I do !?!?!?

I include a drawing I made of what my screen looks like when I turn the computer on. This is the first and only thing I get...

There should be a recovery partition on your PC (usually D: drive) find out the F key that you would use to bring up the recovery partition.

Go into the BIOS setup and check if the boot sequence is correct (usually F2 or del).

Boot from the Windows XP or recovery disk, if you want to dual boot Vista with XP you MUST install XP first otherwise boot.ini and the Vista boot loader have conflicts with each other, make sure that you install Windows XP onto the D: drive and Windows Vista onto the C: drive.

[Snuffy]

Boot from the Windows XP or recovery disk, if you want to dual boot Vista with XP you MUST install XP first otherwise boot.ini and the Vista boot loader have conflicts with each other, make sure that you install Windows XP onto the D: drive and Windows Vista onto the C: drive.

The Vista recovery DVD does not allow this. It is not a FULL nor upgrade ISO...
and if he installs XP first and tries to use the recovery disk, it FORMATS first before it installs...

If you want to Dual Boot you should buy a UPGRADE disk, this you can boot and clean install with. which will allow you to first install XP make a new partition then install Vista on the other partition... ONLY EXTREMELY COMPIDENT COMPUTER people should try dual boot with Vista installed first.