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bdjb

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Hello,
I have a Dell Latitude C640 that does not have a cdrom installed (unit is missing), should it still boot up, or at least give beeps?

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It should post to bios, if there is no OS installed, if there is an OS installed, it should boot and work normally except not have access to the cdrom drive.
 
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you may want to go into BIOS and see if you can remove the CD drive from the boot process altogether. i can't recall the configuration off hand, but i have had issues with bad cd drives causing pc's to not boot. once the cd drive was removed and taken out of the boot sequence, it was fine.

just a thought if you are still having issues....

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On the 640 the CDROM is a sort of USB device. You can take it out and put a floppy in its place. It should boot up without either.
 
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