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    Problems with Boot priority

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by claus1225, Feb 22, 2006.

  1. claus1225

    claus1225 Notebook Guru

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    Hi all,

    I own a satellite 5205 and lately I've been having problem booting my laptop. It almost always boot from cd-rom first and asked me to insert system disk. I have to manually shut down and turn on my machine about 50 times before it finally boots windows. I checked my boot priority and it's set at HDD->FDD->CD-ROM->LAN. I changed it to FDD->HDD->CD-ROM->LAN, but the problem still exists. The machine just kept on booting from cd-rom. This problem surfaced a while ago when I replaced the memory and had to change the boot priority to booting CD-ROM first in order to check the memory using memory diagnostic disk. I think that messed up the boot priority. The boot agent is Intel boot agent v. 4.02. Is there any solution to this without having to reinstall the systerm? Thanks so much.

    chris
     
    claus1225, Feb 22, 2006
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  2. xAMDvsIntelx

    xAMDvsIntelx Notebook Deity

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    I'd try setting the boot priority back to the regular HDD first and see if that does anything. I you also might want to consider updating the drivers as well and see if that does anything.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 23, 2006
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  3. Scratchy413

    Scratchy413 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Did you try loading the default settings in the BIOS? It should just ignore the CD-ROM if there is no CD in there that is bootable. Is there a CD in your drive? If all fails, you should go to the toshiba website and see if there is a bios update.
     
    Scratchy413, Feb 24, 2006
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  4. RenatoSteinberg

    RenatoSteinberg Newbie

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    I'm having the same problem, only in my case it's always booting from HD no matter what I set on the BIOS or on the boot menu (pressing F12). So I cannot boot from CD or a USB external disk

    Were you able to solve it?

    My laptop is a Toshiba A105-S2712, the Bios version is: 1.30/1.08.24
     
    RenatoSteinberg, Mar 1, 2006
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