KT7 Problems booting to CD

[MikeHelvey]

I have a KT7 that I want to boot from the CD. My older gigabite recognized the CD just fine, but the KT7 doesn't seem to activate the CD without first going through a boot to windows. I've set the bios to boot only to CD, but it still goes and finds the hard drive.
The Bios is correctly recognizing the CD type and capabilities during the boot process (prior to booting from a disk) but refuses to use it for the boot drive. (I'm trying to boot off of my Win98SE disk).
Also, I do have two CDs and it doesn't work with either. One is a Plextor 4/8/32 and the other an older I/O Magic Spin x56 (or something).
Any ideas?


Mike Helvey

 

[Compellor]

Did you check in the bios under "Standard CMOS Setup" and check to see if all the IDE devices were set to "AUTO"? I had no problem setting up Win98SE from the CD-ROM, but you can also do the same thing with a Win98 startup disk. Just tell it to enable CD-ROM support during setup. If that doesn't work, your CD-ROM drives may not be compatible with the generic CD-ROM drivers that Microsoft provides on the Win98 CD or startup disk. In this case, you need to get the DOS drivers for your CD-ROM and make a custom boot disk.

 

[MikeHelvey]

I did get it set up using a floppy and loading my CD driver. I still want to figure this out to make it easier next time, or create some bootable CDs. I'll check the "auto" setting. The problem couldn't be the drivers on the CD itself because the motherboard should support the CD until an operating system is installed (am I wrong here?). It isn't even looking to the CD for a system disk even though I've specified boot from CD in the BIOS setup.

Mike

 

[DaddyG]

Mike, if your BIOS is recognizing the CD type, I'm pretty sure that it must be set to AUTO. The only other option is NONE which shouldn't show anything in the BIOS but will work in Windows but will not BOOT.

 

[MikeHelvey]

It worked . That was too simple. I had autodetected the devices in the BIOS setup, but had failed to set them to auto instead of manual. That's why the BIOS reported the drives that it had auto detected, but would not boot to them. Thanks for the help Compeller and DaddyG.