Thread: Cannot boot from CD drive

I recently installed a new motherboard, and now I can’t boot anything from the drive. The MB recognizes it because i was able to back up my hard drive, but in the bios display, even when set to primary boot device, it won’t work. Any insight?

Please post your system specs and further information on what your system does when you try to boot from a cd.

Just to be 100% sure, it is a bootable cd and it is in the drive right?

Try using the BIOS boot manager to manually chose your boot device.You will have to check your post data to be sure of what you have to press.Usually it is F2 or F8 during the POST.

I assume you have Windows working? It's a little vague..

Anyway, assuming you have everything running but can't boot from the CD-drive it's most likely that you don't have the BOOT ORDER set properly.

You need to enter your BIOS and change the boot order. Here's a typical example:

Boot Order:
1. Floppy (or USB)
2. DVD
3. Hard Drive

The system will check each of these and boot to the first one it finds. If it finds no bootable data it moves to the next one. If you’re hard drive is FIRST in the boot order and it contains Windows you will always boot into Windows.

First you boot from hard drive and if it not detect in your hard drives. the second chance is check CD drive with all system part.