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My friend gave me his old computer that used to have WinXP on it. I'm trying to load Win7 on it and I thought there was something wrong because it wouldn't boot off a bootable disc, even though I setup the BIOS boot settings properly (I've done this sort of thing a million times).
However, this closely related post helped me realize that I can boot off a bootable CD (WinXP), just not a DVD (Win7)
Computer won’t boot from CD/DVD drive
That might be the answer to my question, however, this motherboard is still pretty current technology. It's a good quality Gigabyte board, and judging from this product page, it came out in 2004.
If I can't figure out a solution to my DVD boot problem, I'll have to try something like this:
Boot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive
I guess it's possible that this motherboard doesn't allow booting from a DVD, but I still think that I might be missing something. It wouldn't be the DVD rom drive would it? I did try another drive and had the same results. However, I didn't try booting a DVD in the computer that the other test drive came out of, I'll do that later today.
Any other advice? Thanks.
These are all great suggestions and I've already tried them all. Thanks. This particular PC has only one optical drive (it's a DVD drive), but I have other with multiple, and yes I use the Master to boot from. – JohnB – 2010-07-01T20:07:32.073