DS3/E6400 wont boot my CD

[ViviTheMage]

I cant boot the dang thing to CD!

I have a 320gig seagate on the SATA and the IDE cable is connected to my LITEON DVDRW drive and it wont boot to CD...even when I tell bios to.

I have F4e version of this board. I cant get to the F12 options either, or the F9 when it boots, just the DEL into bios...should this be a problem?

I also have tried two other CDs and 2 other IDE drives....all were detected in bios, whats the deal? 🙁

It gets passed bios and all I see is a blinking line...

 

[myocardia]

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[ViviTheMage]

neither one of those worked 🙁

 

[myocardia]

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[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: myocardia
It sounds like you have the IDE ribbon in the wrong way, i.e.-- with the stripe in the wrong place.

I wish that was the case, but there are notches.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I found out what it was...after you upgrade, make sure to do RESET DEFAULT OPTIONS (optimized or fail safe).