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Re: DELL POWEREDGE 6400 IS NOT BOOTING FROM THE CD
Hello,
Go to your BIOS and change the boot sequence so that the system boots to the CD 1st. (You should see a tab or label that says Boot Order or Boot Device.)
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you can change it from bios.you can go to in bios by F2 or del buttons at booting time.In bios you will get first boot device option then you can change here.
Another common way around installation is to copy the whole contents of the CD / DVD to a hard drive.
There are a few methods.
My proffered is to make a bootable flash drive on another machine with known working capabilities that will bot into either an XP-pre installation scenario or a Dos based one.
From there it is often possible to start the installation or even copy the required files to a drive on a machine.
Advantage of copying the files is that the CD / DVD would never be needed to add additional component as they are stored on the machine itself.
That also speeds up installation dramatically.
Bios consideration mus be taken into account when booting from flash drives.
Proper external Hard drives are another viable option
The Dell original standard CD drive shipped with the PE2600 is incapable of 'understanding' the latest generation of bootable CD's (no matter what the BIOS says).
As far as I can tell, it's not fixable in the firmware ..
However you can swap it out for a more modern drive - such as the TS-L462C (which is a plug in replacement combined DVD reader / CD reader/writer - and Dell post the required drivers on their PE 2600 web pages, so I assume it must be a 'supported' solution)
I'd suggest removing the power supplies and giving it another blow out to make sure there's no dust that's insulating the contacts from connecting properly in the other 2 bays. Also check behind them that all cables are connected properly (if it's going to a power circuit board) as one of them may have been knocked.
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