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DVD drive won't boot CDs

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Ranulf

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Anyone have any ideas why a LG GH24NSB0B dvd burner won't boot any CDs/DVDs at start up?

Out of boredom I thought I'd test some older rescue programs on CD/DVD on my win10 test system. The drive works, it shows up/reads discs in windows 7 and win 10 but it won't boot any bootable discs.

No go via the mobo boot menu, no go when telling bios to check the CDROM first, then usb-cdrom, and usb-hdd. It just goes to the hdd. I know its not the discs because I got it to boot off of a samsung usb-dvd burner and everything else was installed via usb.

TIA
 
Win10? Not UEFI related by any chance?

Presumably the BIOS is set to try and boot from the CD drive (or you've done something like pressed a function key at the appropriate time and told it to try booting from CD)?
 
I bought cheap $40dvd burners that acted like that.

What I did to fix it was to throw them away. After confirm your bios is configured correctly and you confimed the cd's boot from other computers then it is the drive itself.
 
UEFI - in a modern pc can mess things up a bit. In short boot into your bios. Disable secure boot and click on advanced and choose CSM which is the old tradition booting style method.
 
This is an older gigabyte AM3+ 760g chipset, so no uefi. It may be sata port issue now that I think about it. If I remember right I connected it to port 4 or 5 instead of the first four.

The machine boots fine from thumb drives in usb 2.0 ports (not 3.0) and from a usb cdrom.
 
I had some 'fun' with the AMD 700 series chipset and different SATA ports (things like 'if in IDE mode, and you have a HDD connected to port 1, an optical drive will work oddly in Windows if connected to port 2'). I don't remember the exact details, but changing the port that the optical drive is connected to might help.
 
ragom said:
For me it was lens failure 😀
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Yeah I ran into that once. I used a cd once without question because the employee swore up and down it works! it works trust me!

I put it in and it does not work. I put my own cd in and it worked for a moment.

I thought a virus and then 15 minutes later I inspect the underside of the cd and the co worker previous was using vaseline on his dry hands and it was all on the underside of the cd.

I put a qtip to the lens and all is good again.
 
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