Help about IBM netfinity 3000

[tance_bt]

Hi, i have IBM netfinity 3000 and it's not booting from CD's. I cheked in the bios if there's an option to boot from USB but there's not! I will realy apricate if someone will help me.

(sorry for my bad english i'm from macedonia)

Regards Tance Acveski

 

[kmote]

In what way is it not booting from CD, do you get an error or does it just boot straight from the HDD? Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS?

 

[tance_bt]

It says that i don't have OS. Yes i did ckecked!

 

[kmote]

Possibly a damaged CD then. Try to boot to a different CD, a linux distro if you don't already have something else and if that won't work then it could be a damaged drive - try a floppy disk.

 

[tance_bt]

1.The cd's are ok on other pc's.
2.I don't have that flopy disk.
3.Aperently my cd-rom is dead.

Thank's for the help rep.+ !!

no other clues ?

 

[kmote]

I thought you said that the CD-ROM was broken? Have you tried another optical drive?

 

[tance_bt]

I don't have other optical drive. I can removeit from my main machine but will i need to setup some things in the BIOS?

 

[kmote]

Just borrow the optical drive from your main machine and yes you will have to go back into the bios of the netfinity to make sure the new optical is at the top of the boot list.

 

[tance_bt]

I tried but it isn't apearing theare. I tried changing the boot thing"the hard drive" with the new dvd rom and it wasn't apering in there. There are just hard drive and flopy.

 

[kmote]

Is it on the same IDE cable as the HDD? Make sure the CD drive is the master and set the HDD as slave, or better still, remove the HDD until you can boot to the CD.