laptop will no boot

[challah]

thanks for the reply
yes i can get into the bios but the only boot option is the hard drive, i tried removing the hard drive and putting a bootable disc in the cd drive but the system does seem to reconise the cd drive even though it feels and sounds like it is working,
with the hard drive removed there is no selectable boot option,
thanks again.

[georgegt]

I can get in to the bios and batery status none and only the hard disk see no cd/dvd changed the device with another laptop and on the other laptop work both work but if I let him to boot freez

[challah]

sorry georgegt i did not see your post
sounds like that could be the answer but i do not have a bios programmer nor do know where to get one
thanks

[georgegt]

first of all is good to ask him if try bis update
possible rong version

[ezzda1]

have you tried another cd drive in it?
or have you tried an external usb dvd drive?
or a usb stick? if you plug a usb device into it then go into the bios, to the boot page, see if theres a boot other device option, or if they even show up in the bios,

[challah]

i was in work today and got a notion let me know what you think
what if i get my hands on another dell laptop and swap bios chips boot up the laptop reverse the switch and download the correct bios, will that work?
thanks

[ezzda1]

you can try but i think you need to boot into dos to update the bios.

[dingo38]

Mobo change..

[fcarocha]

install the operating system