bios

[strauch72]

I have a hp pavillion 513x. It is showing a boot disk failure. I have the full system recovery disks to do a recovery. When I go into the bios, and go to the boot section, I need to change the boot device priority to cd-rom, so I can change the installation so it will read the cd to do the recovery. When I go to the boot section and arrow down to boot device priority and then press enter, I should be able to arrow down to the 3rd device(which is cd-rom), and them your supposed to hit the arrow key and the four devices are supposed to switch places until cd-rom becomes the first priority. When I try to do this, it won't work. Am I missing a step somewhere? can someone help me?

[TheCheekMaster]

what happens when it dont work? what devices get the priority?

[strauch72]

The device just changes in that cetain priority. What it is supposed to do is when you arrow down to the 3rd boot device(which is cd-rom) then your suppose to hit the + key and it is suppose to shift all the boots, not just that one, so cd-rom goes to the first boot priority. If you can't get them to all shift at the same time, then it won't reset the bios and it won't read the cd-rom.

[TheCheekMaster]

hmmm, now thats a bit*h! i know what you mean there, there is a way to do this, took me like 30mins at pressing loads of buttons to get it sorted, but what pressons i pressed, i have now idea!

[strauch72]

I know!!! I did this once before about a year ago, and I know I am missing a step somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember what the heck it is!!! Can you remember?

[Mr Bean]

Hi

Try + or - to move the items up and down the list.

Cheers

Beanie

[strauch72]

I did that. your suppose to do that. but when you press the + key, it supposed to shift all of the priorities around, not just the one your on. that is what I am saying. that is the problem.

[zipulrich]

If that's the case, highlight your CDRom and press the + key until it shows as first boot device. Forget about what the others are set to. Reboot with the disk in and see what happens.

Edit: barring that, flash the BIOS with whatever is the latest.

[strauch72]

When you enter into "boot device priority", cd-rom is in the 3rd boot device. the instructions for the recovery say"press the down arrow key to cd-rom, then hit the + key to move cd-rom to the first boot device, then press f10 to save the changes, so the bios will insall it and then insert the cd. Well when you hit the + key, it just changes that 3rd device. If you can't get them to shift all at the same time, it won't work cause it is still trying to boot from the hard disk. there is one other step in there somewhere, I just can't figure it out!!!! UGH!!!!!

[Mr Bean]

What does it change the 3rd device to, and what happens to the cdrom? Where does it go from the 3rd postion???

[strauch72]

The cd-rom doesn't go anywhere. The choices just change in the 3rd position. The choices are: cd-rom, removable, lan, hard drive, or disable.

[Mr Bean]

So just to confirm you arrow down to the 3rd device(cdrom), hit enter and then + to move the device up the list???

[strauch72]

first boot device....{removable}
second boot device...{Hard drive}
third boot device...{cd-rom}
fourth boot device...{lan}

This is how it looks when your in the boot device priority screen. And when you arrow down to cd-rom it is highlighted and when you press enter a little box pops up to make a choice by arrowing up or down to move the dot. But you can't change it this way because it doesn't shift them all, only that one. For it to work properly, they all have to shift at the same time. How do I get them to shift all at the same time?

[zipulrich]

Change them 1 by 1. Make the hard drive 2nd, CDROM 1st, and so on.

[Mr Bean]

If you press F5 you can reload the default boot priority.