Booting from SATA optical?

[adeathangel]

Hello hello... I just got a new system together, and I've been wanting to run memtest86 (I don't have a 3.5in floppy drive) but my SATA DVD burner doesn't seem to boot. I'm new to SATA so I don't really know how to work this. This is what I'm running:

Athlon64 3200+
Asus A8V Deluxe
256MBx4 PC3500
Asus V9999GT Geforce 6800 "GT" (Getting a real GT -_-)
Plextor PX-712A DVD Burner

I can't set any kind of boot priority in the BIOS, so I have no idea how to make this work. Can anyone help me? (=

On another note, if anyone knows why my computer LAGS everytime I burn a DVD (or CD for that matter), I mean it lags so bad I'll type a long message in AIM and it takes 15 seconds for the text to appear in the text box, please let me know! I've updated the firmware and drivers, and I've run out of ideas. I don't think it's because it's SATA, but who knows. Any help would rock, thanks guys!

 

[CheesePoofs]

You must be missing the boot priority thing in the bios - its in every motherboard's bios. Normally its in one of the top two menus on the left side.

 

[adeathangel]

Sorry, to clarify, I meant to say that I can change the boot priority for my IDE drives, like the HD. But I can't do a boot priority for SATA because it doesn't have a master or slave or anything like that. So I'm really wondering how to make it boot from CD when the BIOS' boot goes straight to the HD. I've tried disabling the HD in the BIOS to see if the CD will boot then, and it still won't boot. It says something about inserting a valid boot disk in the floppy, or going in the BIOS.

 

[sevin7]

I had the same problem with a computer i built for my freind, using only 1 sata hard drive, on the new gigabyte Nforce 4 mobo (dont feel like lookin up model #). There was no option to boot from the sata hard drive in the bios, so i used the raid set up to make it a single raid drive, and it let me boot. But im absoluelty clueless when it comes to a cd drive.... Man im behind, i didnt even know there were sata cd drives

 

[adeathangel]

Yeah, I don't get it. My friend's mobo (also an Asus, but for his XP) has this SCSI/SATA option where you enable it and then you can have that in your boot order. My BIOS doesn't have that, and the BIOS version I have is 1008.003, which I thought was the new one. So I don't know what to think -_-.. I'm going to Fry's Electronics tomorrow to buy a 3.5in floppy drive, never thought I'd need it on my new system, guess I do.