Specs: XP Home SP3
Award BIOS
2.8 gb Intel Celeron CPU
1 gb RAM
40 gb Quantum Fireball HDD
Yamaha CRW3200E CD-RW Recorder
Compaq DVD-ROM
IDE Primary Master HDD
Slave DVD
IDE Secondary Master CD
Slave None
Original setup was DVD as secondary slave, I moved things trying to find a solution.
Trying to do a clean install of XP Home, I set BIOS for CD boot first but it will not happen. I get the "hit any key to boot from CD" during load up but no matter what key I hit nothing happens. You can watch it time out waiting and then it moves to the HDD. This happens even if I disable the HDD from the boot sequence.
The XP CD is a legitimate MS upgrade disk. I tried booting from it on my laptop and it worked no problem. I also tried an old Win98 SE upgrade CD that is supposed to be a boot disk and it won't work either (I did not try this in the laptop).
This leads me to think it is something with the CD player but it seems to be working fine in all other respects-plays music, games, data and photo CDs, loads programs ok, burns CDs ok.
I have also tried putting the CD in the DVD drive to see if somehow that is the CD boot. No joy.
Any ideas?