Issues booting from CD

[GhettoBlaster]

I've swapped out my mobo, cpu and ram due to a failed mobo. Almost time for an upgrade anyways. Well I want to boot from my XP cd and do a Repair on XP to get all of the drivers and stuff going right so I don't have to wipe and start all over. XP does indeed boot up, but with 640x480 res and just about no drivers working, like for wireless mouse yet my usb keyboard does work. Well in the BIOS I did select the CDROM to be my primary boot device before the HDD. I hear the CDROM spin and read while the PC is booting, does it for a little bit and then goes to the XP slash screen and boots into XP. I confirmed that the CD is good by inserting it into my laptop and the autorun dialog appears. I've tried two different optical drives too, same exact results.

Are there any issues with this board and it not liking to boot from a CD? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!

 

[cprince]

Is your CD bootable? Try booting the CD from the Laptop to see what happens. But if XP booted up, then why would you want to do a repair install? You have to reinstall all the drivers either way.

 

[GhettoBlaster]

I was just doing the lazy thing and not feeling like transferring whatever files I need off of the C: though most everything like music and pictures are kept on a separate drive instances like this. Plus this upgrade was done suddenly as the previous hardware failure was unexpected.

I am not sure if I have ever booted from this exact CD, it's a CD-R that came from an ISO as it's a part of a volume license.

 

[mechBgon]

You can force recent Asus motherboards to boot from a specific device by pressing the F8 key during POST (preceded by the F-lock key if your keyboard has an F-lock key). If there's something wrong with your CD then get with your I.T. people for a replacement. Or, as cprince said, just get going on your driver reinstallations.