need answer about ASUS motherboard

Several days ago I emailed ASUS ( ) 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

sounds like a cdrom problem not a mobo one.

"Mark" wrote in message
...
Several days ago I emailed ASUS ( ) 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 cant 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

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.

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.

"Mark" wrote in message
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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.

Mark:

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

Try moving your cdrom to another ide channel.
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Mac Cool

Mac Cool a exposé le 06/10/04 :
Mark:

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

Try moving your cdrom to another ide channel.

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

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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 wrote:

Mark:

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

Try moving your cdrom to another ide channel.
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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.

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Mac Cool

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