need answer about ASUS motherboard

[Mark]

Several days ago I emailed ASUS ( (e-mail address removed)) a question about their
motherboard but received no reply. I copied the message below hopin that
soembody know the answer to my simple questions. I emailed simpiar message
to BIOS manufacturer but they replied that since the BIOS was modified by
ASUS, they would not give any advise.

Her is my message:



Dear Sir/Madam:

Does your motherboard allow booting from the CD-ROM?

I changed the booting sequence in BIOS to CDROM,A,C.

I receive “Boot from CDROM – failure” message when I reboot or start my
system.

I bought NORTON Ghost 9, and they provided me with a bootable CD.
Unfortunately I can’t use it because my system with your motherboard does
not want to boot from the CD-ROM.


Is there anything else I need to do? Should I set “allow boot A seek” to
enable? Right now is set to “disable”.


I have ASUS motherboard that displays following info:

08/18/00 – i440BX-<P2B-F>

AWARD Modular BIOS v4.51.PG

ASUS P2B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1013.A




I have Windows XP with SP2.

Mark

 

[Pen]

sounds like a cdrom problem not a mobo one.

 

[Mark]

CD-ROM works OK. It did read the CD and I was able to instal Ghost 9. The
installation CD is supposedly aalso bootable. I can't boot from it.

 

[Pen]

The mobo definitely supports boot from CD. You could try
making a boot floppy and then running the CD if the disks
won't boot.

 

[Mac Cool]

Mark:

I receive "Boot from CDROM - failure" message when I reboot or start my
system.

Try moving your cdrom to another ide channel.

 

[L'incal]

Mac Cool a exposé le 06/10/04 :

Mark:


Try moving your cdrom to another ide channel.

You should also try to boot your CD on another PC.

 

[Brian Grant]

I had a similar problem about a year ago. How old is your CD? There is I
believe a feature called "multi-read" or "Multiscan" that is incorporated
into newer models.
I boorowed a drive from a friend and was able to boot from CD. Bought a new
CD of my own and have been able to boot ever since.

Good Luck

 

[Mac Cool]

Brian Grant:

There is I believe a feature called "multi-read" or "Multiscan" that is
incorporated into newer models.

Geez, thinking back... I'm pretty sure my first cdrom, a Creative 4X4 had
multiscan, whatever the hell it was.

 

[Mark]

I bough it in April 2004. It is a DVD/CDR combo.
Mark

 

[Mark]

Since ASUS does not want to respond to my email I will have to consider
posting a new post "be careful with ASUS motherboards" or "ASUS motherboards
not compatible with CD-ROM rebooting". A liitle publicity should help.
Mark

 

[Mark]

Do other manufacturers MB allow booting from CD-ROM?

 

[kony]

Do other manufacturers MB allow booting from CD-ROM?

Old board, new drive, maybe they're incompatible?
Hard to knock Asus NOW for a board that old, nobody
remembers much about it, most likely.

Most boards do boot from CDROm fine, but if yours doesn't,
just get over it and move on... there is no hardware
nirvana, just little bumps along a long road.

 

[yak]

Do other manufacturers MB allow booting from CD-ROM?

I'd say that any motherboard purchased today will support booting from
the cd...

 

[Mark]

I solved the problem. I disabled another drive that I had on my system, and
now I can boot from the CD-ROM drive. I have to learn to live without the
other drive.
Mark

 

[kony]

I solved the problem. I disabled another drive that I had on my system, and
now I can boot from the CD-ROM drive. I have to learn to live without the
other drive.
Mark

Shuffling around the positions of the drives might help?

 

[Gorm]

Coincedently, I have the same MB on my old PC.
I've booted from CD so many times over the last 5 years I can't
count.
As for your situation:
if I understand correctly, you have 2 CD drives on the system.
If you do tell us which one is master, which one is slave, and on
which channels are they.