Hello again!
Quote:
> Not really a Vista related question as any computer capable of running
> Vista will be capable of booting from DVD.
Not quite! We tested it at work: only machines younger than a year could
boot from a DVD-Drive.
The older computers are not that old: about 3 to 4 years, with CPUs faster
than 3 GHz. But all of them failed to boot from an Install-DVD-ROM.
But you could install Vista as a second operation system.
But we did not try out yet a new DVD-Drive in an older computer, so we would
have found out ourselves. That is why we asked to find out without testing
it.
Greetings Manfred
Quote:
> If the machine is so old that the BIOS doesn't support booting from DVD,
> it isn't going to run Vista anyway.
>
>
> "Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ee2svpN%23JHA.1376@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Why do older computers not boot from a DVD-Drive?
>>
>> Is it the DVD-Drive or the mainboard (with its BIOS or the onboard
>> controller)?
>>
>> Thanks Manfred
>