Dreaded won't boot from CD problem. Gigabyte MB, stumped and in need of help.

[Matt_Stevens]

My sister's PC is ravaged with viruses and barely functional. I'll kill her and and her husband for their stupidity another day but meanwhile their system needs to be wiped and redone.

Unfortunately this system will not boot from the CD drive. I have heard of this happening, but never came across it myself. I spent the entire day troubleshooting and have given up.

Yes, CD is first in the BIOS for booting. Even taking the HDD out of the equation matters not. It just flies right to Windows startup.

I never see "Press any key to boot from CD" as some suggest will happen.

If I press F12 (or it could be F9, I don't recall right now) I can get a boot choice menu where you can highlight one, but it doesn't work. I can pick CD all day long and it goes right to booting from the HDD. I should mention the hard drive is the only item with a + next to it when the screen comes up.

Honestly I am at my whits end. I see lots of threads elsewhere on this conundrum and no solutions. The CD/DVD drive works perfectly in Windows and I have tried 7 bootable CD's DVD's.

System specs...

iBUYPOWER AMD FX4130 Quad Core 2.81GHz running Win7 Home Premium 64bit. 8 GB ram.

MB is a Gigabyte "Ultra Durable" DX10 GA-78LMY-S2

I would give a happy ending for a solution.

 

[daveybrat]

I had that same problem on certain Gigabyte boards. The answer is as follows:

Make sure that in the bios there is an option to set the 'Sata ports 4 & 5' to IDE mode.

Then make sure (and if not move it) that the dvd drive is plugged into Sata port 4 or 5 on the motherboard.

(the 2 ports right next to the 24-pin power connector).

Most likely iBUYPOWER just connected the drive to one of the other 4 ports and the drive is in AHCI mode.

It's worked for me everytime but let me know if it doesn't work!

 

[Matt_Stevens]

I had that same problem on certain Gigabyte boards. The answer is as follows:

Make sure that in the bios there is an option to set the 'Sata ports 4 & 5' to IDE mode.

Then make sure (and if not move it) that the dvd drive is plugged into Sata port 4 or 5 on the motherboard.

Most likely iBUYPOWER just connected the drive to one of the other 4 ports and the drive is in AHCI mode.

It's worked for me everytime but let me know if it doesn't work!

Thank you for this. I will do it first thing tomorrow. Well, after a run, breakfast and a RedBull. :biggrin:

If memory serves, the CD drive was connected to SATA 4 which means they got that part right so hopefully it's the BIOS setting.

 

[denis280]

did you try changing port.did you try to clear cmos.and you could try a CMD with sfc /scannow

 

[daveybrat]

Thank you for this. I will do it first thing tomorrow. Well, after a run, breakfast and a RedBull. :biggrin:

If memory serves, the CD drive was connected to SATA 4 which means they got that part right so hopefully it's the BIOS setting.

Yeah, on my old Gigabyte 970 motherboard, i too had the exact same issue. It was also on Port 4 but could not make the damn thing boot.

Went into the bios and changed the 'Sata 4 & 5' option from AHCI to IDE and bingo!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Make sure that "CSM / Legacy Boot" is enabled. Otherwise, it may only be trying to boot UEFI mode, which your disks may not be.

 

[Matt_Stevens]

How about that! AHCI to IDE fixed it! Thank you all for your help. What a relief!

 

[daveybrat]

No problem, glad to hear it's solved!

 

[inachu]

Love reading these threads. Now I know what not to buy

 

[Gunbuster]

This is why I put my Windows ISO on a USB stick...

 

[dbcooper1]

An external USB CD/DVD drive is helpful for such 'troublemakers and time wasters'