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Will some Motherboards not boot from CD?

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CovertCow

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I installed winxp without problems on my computer. My brother and I both have the 440-BX2 Chipset. Mine is intel his is asus. When he starts up, It gets the following thing:

Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
No emulation system type-(00)

Press any key to boot from CD




The problem with this is that when I press a button, it continues to boot win98 (his current os).

Do I need to make a boot disk in order to install it on his?

Sorry if this belongs in the OS forum, it has aspects of General Hardware, motherboards, and Operating systems.
 
If I understand correctly your brothers motherboard is an Asus? I had problems getting an Asus P3b-f to boot from an Ide cdrom: solution was making the cdrom I was trying to boot from Master. If the drive is not master you could try that.
 
I boot off the CD all the time, using ASUS P2B, P2B-F and P3B-F motherboards. The CD drive is master on the second channel, as cloudchief said.
 
Dude...it isnt the motherboard...its obviously the cd rom...either its not connected to the right ide port or not on the right channel or not slave or master or some crap like that. One thing..although this probably doesnt apply to you..if your cd rom is USB then your motherboard wont detect it.
 
I used the exact same cd rom drive (in the same place, secondary master), as I used in my computer that worked. It should work, the only thing that is not constant is the motherboard, that is interesting that you have been able to boot from all those, any ideas on what else I could try?
 
I had the same problem last night installing XP. I could not get it to boot from the cd rom no matter how I configured my boot sequence in the bios. I even tried using a win98se boot disk with cdrom emulation and could not get it to work.

What I did to finally get it to work was to reistall win98 and then just put the XP disk in and installed from there. It will reformat right over win98 and install right from there with a full install.
 
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