Boot from CD Issues

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<SOLVED> Boot from CD Issues

Again i apologize if this is in the wrong place, but it seemed most fitting here.

I have found a lot of people having this type of issue, but none with the exact same problem as me (and none of their solutions worked)

I have been trying to boot up a old(ish) pc from a cd for about 3 days now, it has successfully done it once out of 100 tries. I have tested the cd in other pc's and it works, its x86 and so is the pc i'm trying to boot it with.

Basically when I start the pc, it goes past the bios logo, and then hangs at
"PCI Device listing
blah****
blah****
blah****
********
Verifying DMI Pool Data .....................
Boot from CD : _"

And the underscore is blinking.

The main reason this has confused me is that it has indeed successfully booted from the cd once. For those wanting to know there is currently no OS on the pc, there is one hard drive and a dvd/rw reader, and the boot disk i'm trying to load is "NAS4Free" and it is currently the latest version of the LiveCD, and i have also tried the embedded image.

I have also tried a arch linux boot dvd, and a ubuntu server 13.04 boot dvd, as well as a windows xp, and 8 boot dvd's, and finally a g-parted boot cd, none of which had any luck.

Not sure if theres something really stupid i am over looking, or if possibly somebody has had this same issue and i was clearly unable to find anything about it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. :good:

Cheers
 
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lucasbytegenius said:
Have you tried using another CD drive?
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Unfortunately i rarely use cd/dvd drives as it is so I do not have access to another one. That was going to be my next step if nobody here had any other solutions haha, if there are no other ideas I will try and find one off one of my buddies asap.
 
Here's an interesting predicament, solely for the purpose of ...'s and giggles, I took the ram cards out, then put them back in. Now it will boot from the cd. Reboot, now i get the same error as before again.

Could it be a faulty ram card? or faulty mobo? This error has confused me.
 
I had a similar problem with an Asus motherboard where it would simply refuse to load anything from any CD/DVD drive.

After I set up windows from a USB, I tried 3 different drives and it still wouldn't read any disc. All drives worked on other system of course.

I never discovered what it was but within a week the motherboard blew, So my guess was that it was an issue with the motherboard from the start and it could possibly be a similar issue with yours...
 
Just so everybody knows, I still couldn't really figure out what it was. But i unplugged all other devices from the pc other then the DVD drive, monitor, and keyboard and it boot's from a cd 1/5 times now.
Strange right?
But it doesn't matter because i installed an os and it's running fine now without the dvd drive.
If this same thing has happened to you,

1) take out RAM cards
2) remove all devices other then dvd drive, monitor, keyboard
3) put ram back in
4) turn on and boot into bios
5) quadruple check all bios setting's are correct
6) reboot again and hope it boots from the dvd/cd.

Hope this may have helped!

Cheers to you guy's who tried to help me.
 
I've had that problem with older boards. But I mean older boards, like socket 7 or 462/A. But the drives were older too, from the same time frame. It would be a random thing with different drives and boards. Think what the problem was then, was the drives access time, the time it took the drive to start reading data from the drive. If it took to long the bios would just error out or hang.
 
This was an old board, not pre-sata though. it has 4 sata jacks and 1 pata still. haha. I'v had the pleasure of only ever having to deal with one piece of ancient technology where taking 15 minutes to boot was quicker then average.

Though in this situation I think that a ghost is possessing the mobo :(
 
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