tinytimirl
Junior Member
Short version:
My DVD drive can not read my system builder OEM Vista DVD. (Or the replacement I ordered). The drive can still read other CD's and DVD's just fine though. I also tried both discs on another computer and they work fine. So the discs work and the drive works but they just don't work together.
Long version:
Alright I have been fooling with this all day and I am getting nowhere. Basically, I have a rig I built a while ago. The motherboard is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with BIOS revision 1303. The DVD/CD rom is a NEC ND-3540A. I had it set up to dual boot between vista 64 and XP 32 and this worked fine for quite a while. The only reason I kept XP alive was because some drivers for a guitar accessory of mine were only available for 32 bit OS's. Both of the OS's are also system builder OEM's. I also have a disc with OEM XP 64.
After drivers finally came out for my guitar accessory, I decided to do away with XP entirely and I backed all my files up so I can delete the seperate partitions and start fresh. I did all that and I popped my Vista DVD in and rebooted the PC but the computer wouldn't recognize it. The drive light did come on but it didn't spin up to speed. It did this for a a little while.. perhaps 20-30 seconds. After that, it would give up and load from the hard drive. Also, the BIOS revision I had then was 1009. This version was, and still is, the latest non beta version available. Naturally I tried the usual suspects. Is the dvd dirty? nope. Air duster the drive? yup. Make sure the boot order is correct? check. Does the drive read other media, both CD and DVD? sure does... Also, Vista would not recognize the DVD if I tried to pop it in while Vista was loaded. I also flashed my BIOS to the latest beta which went flawlessly but still didn't help.
At this point, the only thing I could think of is that my DVD somehow became defective. So my next move was to call MS and buy a replacement disc without a key. About a month later, it finally showed up. So basically at this point I try the same thing again and the results are exactly the same. My computer treats this newer disc just like my original.
So I decided to try it on another computer to see if it would work, and sure enough, both of these install discs work fine. I can navigate to them and the contents all appear to be intact. This made me wonder if it was because I already have Vista installed on my PC and that was having some affect. I seriously doubted it but I was out of options. So I took the XP installation disc and booted off of that. I deleted the partitions and started fresh and XP installed fine. With just XP installed, I tried to boot off of the Vista disc (or even access it while XP was loaded) and it wouldn't work. I tried this with both XP 32 and 64 even though I knew the outcome would be the same. (I'm desperate!). So finally, I booted up off XP again and deleted the partitions and then abandoned the XP installation. So now I just have empty hard drives. And guess what? Yeah, it still wouldn't work. All I get now is: "DISC BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND PRESS ENTER." That message pops up after the initial 20-30 seconds of the DVD light being on but not spinning. Subsequent enters cause the message to pop back up after a few seconds.
This completely boggles my mind because the DVD drive is the exact same one I used when I first installed the OS. Also, in case I wasn't clear about the BIOS, it didn't work with release 1009 OR beta 1303.
I do have another DVD burner that I scrapped from an old computer that my grandpa gave me but I have no idea if it works. If not, I can always call my friend up and be like "Hey, I need you to open your computer up and let me borrow your DVD drive" lol.
As for me, I've built a couple PC's, replaced countless parts in others, I'm the ONE person that everyone in my humungous family calls for computer trouble, I've been a software dev for several years, etc. So basically, you can skip asking me if the DVD is in the drive right side up lol. (Hence the extremely long post).
Anyway, I hope someone on here can help me because the only other thing I can try is a new DVD drive. And seeing how my current DVD burner can still burn CDs and DVDs flawlessly, as well as read them too, I am skeptical.
My DVD drive can not read my system builder OEM Vista DVD. (Or the replacement I ordered). The drive can still read other CD's and DVD's just fine though. I also tried both discs on another computer and they work fine. So the discs work and the drive works but they just don't work together.
Long version:
Alright I have been fooling with this all day and I am getting nowhere. Basically, I have a rig I built a while ago. The motherboard is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with BIOS revision 1303. The DVD/CD rom is a NEC ND-3540A. I had it set up to dual boot between vista 64 and XP 32 and this worked fine for quite a while. The only reason I kept XP alive was because some drivers for a guitar accessory of mine were only available for 32 bit OS's. Both of the OS's are also system builder OEM's. I also have a disc with OEM XP 64.
After drivers finally came out for my guitar accessory, I decided to do away with XP entirely and I backed all my files up so I can delete the seperate partitions and start fresh. I did all that and I popped my Vista DVD in and rebooted the PC but the computer wouldn't recognize it. The drive light did come on but it didn't spin up to speed. It did this for a a little while.. perhaps 20-30 seconds. After that, it would give up and load from the hard drive. Also, the BIOS revision I had then was 1009. This version was, and still is, the latest non beta version available. Naturally I tried the usual suspects. Is the dvd dirty? nope. Air duster the drive? yup. Make sure the boot order is correct? check. Does the drive read other media, both CD and DVD? sure does... Also, Vista would not recognize the DVD if I tried to pop it in while Vista was loaded. I also flashed my BIOS to the latest beta which went flawlessly but still didn't help.
At this point, the only thing I could think of is that my DVD somehow became defective. So my next move was to call MS and buy a replacement disc without a key. About a month later, it finally showed up. So basically at this point I try the same thing again and the results are exactly the same. My computer treats this newer disc just like my original.
So I decided to try it on another computer to see if it would work, and sure enough, both of these install discs work fine. I can navigate to them and the contents all appear to be intact. This made me wonder if it was because I already have Vista installed on my PC and that was having some affect. I seriously doubted it but I was out of options. So I took the XP installation disc and booted off of that. I deleted the partitions and started fresh and XP installed fine. With just XP installed, I tried to boot off of the Vista disc (or even access it while XP was loaded) and it wouldn't work. I tried this with both XP 32 and 64 even though I knew the outcome would be the same. (I'm desperate!). So finally, I booted up off XP again and deleted the partitions and then abandoned the XP installation. So now I just have empty hard drives. And guess what? Yeah, it still wouldn't work. All I get now is: "DISC BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND PRESS ENTER." That message pops up after the initial 20-30 seconds of the DVD light being on but not spinning. Subsequent enters cause the message to pop back up after a few seconds.
This completely boggles my mind because the DVD drive is the exact same one I used when I first installed the OS. Also, in case I wasn't clear about the BIOS, it didn't work with release 1009 OR beta 1303.
I do have another DVD burner that I scrapped from an old computer that my grandpa gave me but I have no idea if it works. If not, I can always call my friend up and be like "Hey, I need you to open your computer up and let me borrow your DVD drive" lol.
As for me, I've built a couple PC's, replaced countless parts in others, I'm the ONE person that everyone in my humungous family calls for computer trouble, I've been a software dev for several years, etc. So basically, you can skip asking me if the DVD is in the drive right side up lol. (Hence the extremely long post).
Anyway, I hope someone on here can help me because the only other thing I can try is a new DVD drive. And seeing how my current DVD burner can still burn CDs and DVDs flawlessly, as well as read them too, I am skeptical.
