New rig, unable to boot from CD RW

[Prasanta]

I have recently assembled an AMD system with Gigabyte GA-7ZMMH MB, Athlon XP 1700+, 40GB HDD, 1.44 FDD and an ASUS 24X CDRW. Though I am able to boot from my floppy and my HDD, when I put a bootable CD in my CD R/W. It is giving Boot Record Not found error.
When I put the CD inside, the Read LED starts blinking and continues for a while but at last it gives a message 'Boot system not found'.
I tried booting from Floppy with Win 98 boot disk choosing the option to boot with CD suport. In that case, I can see the CD as a drive but when I am trying to do a DIR operation on the CD drive it is giving error.

I do not have any OS installed in my PC as I am still strugging with my CD RW

Can someone please help.

Regards,
Prasanta.

 

[DocDon]

Go into the BIOS and make sure your CD is the first boot device

 

[AMDfreak]

Do you have another system you could try the drive in after checking the BIOS? Could be a faulty drive if the BIOS is set up correctly.

 

[CedarTeeth135]

Go into bios and change it to first boot-up device.

If that doesn't seem to be working, just go ahead and get/find a Windows (I assume thats what you'll be installing) bootup disk.

 

[Prasanta]

The Bios is set up properly. When the system Boots up, it detects the CD RW correctly (as ASUS.. I can't see the whole thing as it is cleared very fast). During boot up, the CD READ LED blinks properly. When I put a CD in it, the system tries to read it for long (READ LED flickering) and then says that OS not found. My other PC boots readily with this CD!

After I installed Win 98, Win recognises that there is a CD drive present but when I go to see the contents it says 'Device Not ready'

Regards,
Prasanta.

 

[jmorrell]

From your description of the flashing LED, DIR problem and subsequent error messages, it looks like the CDRW is the culprit. Try another CD drive in your computer (if you have one) and see if it can read and boot off the CD. If that drive works, the problem lies with your CDRW.