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CD-ROM won't boot on K7S5A

HeroOfPellinor

HeroOfPellinor

Lifer
I've tried 3 different CD-Rom drivess and multiple versions of the BIOS. The problem is that the BIOS auto detects my CD-Rom drive, but it won't read from it. When I try to boot from the CD-Rom, to install an OS, it says that it's looking for the boot record, then says "not found." I've tried booting off the floppies, but the CD-Rom again won't read the CD when the setup prompts you for the disk. I'm trying to install Windows 2000.

Anybody have any advice on this? Thanks.
 
get a boot disk from a friend... one that loads CDRom drivers... i've noticed that Win ME makes the best boot disks
 
There is a big K7S5A/ECS FAQ somewhere on the web.. either you can search for that, or someone will reply with the link information.. I can only suggest reading there to decide what to do. it seems as if something is defective with the board, but there might be a fix for it..
 
I used Makebt32.exe on the Win2K CD on another computer to create the 4 boot disks. When it asks for the CD I put it in and hit enter, but it just keeps asking for the CD.

I've searched the K7S5A FAQ on OCW and have searched the forums of every hardware site I know, and have only found a handfull of posts that sound like my problem and none of them have any resolution.
 
I had no problems booting off the CD-ROM when I installed WinXP on my ECS K7S5A.

Which version of Win2K do you have? If you have the update (as opposed to the full version), I think it is a non-bootable CD. I couldn't boot from that -- I had to boot from a floppy disk. The same system booted from my WinXP CD fine.

Edit: Oops, I read your post more closer and I just remembered that I had the same problem booting from floppy as you did. When I put the CD in, it couldn't read it. So I couldn't install Win2k on that system. I later tried installing WinXP and it booted and installed perfectly from the CD drive.
 
did you mess with IDE settings?

try booting cdrom as slave on Master 0, have you tried changing the boot up options?

Are you sure Win2K CD is good?
 
Tried running it as PM, SM, and SS. It's set to boot off cd first then floppy then ide1.

I only have the one disk and it worked fine on another system a month ago. I got another copy today from work so I'll check to see if it's the disk, but the disk was readable in another system as recently as yesterday, so I doubt that's it.
 
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