Mobo won't boot DVD

ensure your DIP switches are set correctly on the DVD drive and the cable is correctly installed.

 

DVD drive was working perfectly before and works normally for playing games; just won't boot my XP disc at startup.

 

What are DIP switches? I have never heard of this term before.

 

Tedster means the Master/Slave switches - they are DIP switches.

Is the dvd connected to the secondary IDE? Is it on the middle connector?

 

Oh okay, now that term I do know.

Learn something new everyday, thanks.

 

Testing

just testing how it works.

 

its quick and amazing...

 

Yes the first is used for the hard drives

 

Double check: http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html


edit: since you just installed a 'new' mobo, did you install the chipset drivers and have you played a cd interfaced game with that new mobo ?

 

Thank you for your help; but i managed to sort things out.
In the bios my keyboard worked perfectly, so i did not suspect that could be the problem, but it was. In the bios was a section that stopped usb devices being used in dos; i changed it so that usb could be used in dos and bingo! It worked first time.

Thanks again for your help.:grinthumb

 

Sounds funny that your original post was about your cd and your solution was a bios fix for your keyboard!!!

However,...............

 

I'll explain.
Everytime i was trying to boot onto the XP disc, i was tapping the keyboard as asked but nothing was happening apart from continuing into XP(the old motherboard/ cpu install). Due to the keyboard working in the bios, i put it down to the dvdrom not wanting to boot the disc. This idea was furthered by Foxconn themselves saying that i had not set up the bios to read the DVDROM correctly, even though i could not find where i was going wrong. After no resolving of the problem, i came to Techspot to see if anyone had any ideas. It wasn't until i looked in every nook and cranny in the bios, as i was running out of ideas; that i found that the usb devices had been turned off in dos (something i'd never seen before) so i turned it to on and the rest is history so to speak.

 

When you said 'DVD drive was working perfectly before and works normally for playing games; just won't boot my XP disc at startup." I thought, as maybe others did, that you had already installed the OS and played games and were now RE-installing (for whatever reason).

This is why good description is important.

Anyway, glad you have ot sorted out.