compaq presario boot sequence

I have inherited a compaq presario with win98 loaded that will not boot.

it seems when you shut it off the presario "saves to disk" a memory image so that when you turn it back on, it loads the image back into memory and runs from there.

Is there a way to force this thing to boot from cd ???? or from floppy for that matter.

if i put a boot disk in the floppy or the os cd in the drive and turn the sysytem on, i am getting a "restore from disk in progress" message, and what i want is to boot from the cd.

thanks in advace for any help


steve

 

nope......on power up the system still does a restore from disk, then crashes with a "vfat devise initialization failed" "sysem halted" message.