New CDROM drive won't boot

[jimbofoxman]

Just got my new setup, including this CD ROM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152077

My XP disk wouldn't boot from it. Threw in my old Win98 boot floppy and it didn't even recognize the CD then.

So I grabbed my LiteOn from this computer I am on now and the XP disk booted right up and installed.

Once XP is loaded, I am going to add the suspicious drive in and see if it even works.

Any thoughts? Could it be bad? The bios recognizes the drive. BTW, this is a DS3 Rev 2 mobo.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Do you have a hard drive on the same IDE channel as the optical drive? What are the jumpers set to (master / slave / CS)?

 

[bendixG15]

Might new new firmware

 

[jimbofoxman]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Do you have a hard drive on the same IDE channel as the optical drive? What are the jumpers set to (master / slave / CS)?

It's on the only IDE hookup I got. Hard Drive is on SATA.

I tried it with Master and CS.

 

[jimbofoxman]

Well the saga continues. I put the cd on after installing XP Pro and it recognizes it in the bios and is drive F in MY COMPUTER. But it will not read anything.

 

[Blain]

But brikis98 likes the NEC burners... :roll:

 

[jimbofoxman]

Well, I just RMA'd this with NewEgg. So we'll see what happens with the new one.

 

[DLM]

@Blain...

But brikis98 likes the NEC burners...

So what's the point of your post? Please let us all in on the joke since the OP had already linked to the vendors site.😕

 

[Nocturnal]

Was it being recognized by the BIOS? If not, it may have been a jumper issue.

 

[jimbofoxman]

Yes, the BIOS was recognizing it.