I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard. I have an ASUS DRW-24B3ST DVD optical drive. I can see the DVD set as first boot device in the bios, but when I actually boot, it boots from C drive. How to fix? I have a corrupted drive & need to get info off of it with with active undelete, but I need to boot from that DVD.
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Check your motherboard user manual, bios chapter and see if pressing F12 when your system is posting will interrupt booting and display a screen that will let you choose your optical drive as the boot device.
You will probably need to press the F12 key repeatedly, once per second, for the boot device menu to work.Q9650 @ 4.10GHz [9x456MHz]
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Originally posted by profJim View PostCheck your motherboard user manual, bios chapter and see if pressing F12 when your system is posting will interrupt booting and display a screen that will let you choose your optical drive as the boot device.
You will probably need to press the F12 key repeatedly, once per second, for the boot device menu to work.
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Originally posted by stasio View PostAs you set the DVD set as first boot/HDD as second,you need Bootable CD or DVD to be inserted.
If DVD set is empty,you will boot strait to HDD (OS).
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Originally posted by cornorstone View PostI did try this and nothing happened, it just booted from C:, but when I get home tonight I will give it another try. Thank you
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
From the boot device dialogue box, eject your optical disk by opening the tray.
Close the optical drive tray and as soon as the tray closes and the light comes on, boot from your optical drive.
It might take several tries to get the timing just right.
PITA? Yup!! But it should work.Last edited by profJim; 03-06-2013, 01:14 PM.Q9650 @ 4.10GHz [9x456MHz]
P35-DS4 [rev: 2.0] ~ Bios: F14
4x2GB OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 1094MHz @5-5-5-15
MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack (1GB) video card <---- SLI ---->
Seasonic SS-660XP2 80 Plus Platinum psu (660w)
WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB (data)
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD (boot)
SLI @ 16/4 works when running HyperSLICooler Master 120XL Seidon push/pull AIO cpu water cooling
Cooler Master HAF XB computer case (RC-902XB-KKN1)
Asus VH242H 24" monitor [1920x1080]
MSI N460GTX Hawk (1GB) video card
Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers
win7 x64 sp1 Home Premium
HT|Omega Claro plus+ sound card
CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD UPSE6300 (R0) @ 3.504GHz [8x438MHz] ~~ P35-DS3L [rev: 1.0] ~ Bios: F9 ~~ 4x2GB Kingston HyperX T1 PC2-8500, 876MHz @4-4-4-10
Seasonic X650 80+ gold psu (650w) ~~ Xigmatek Balder HDT 1283 cpu cooler ~~ Cooler Master CM 690 case (RC-690-KKN1-GP)
Samsung 830 128GB SSD MZ-7PC128B/WW (boot) ~~ WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB (data) ~~ ZM-MFC2 fan controller
HT|Omega Striker 7.1 sound card ~~ Asus VH242H monitor [1920x1080] ~~ Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers
win7 x64 sp1 Home Premium ~~ CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD U.P.S.
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
You might have better luck putting your active undelete software on a bootable usb flash drive.
What are the specific sata port names that you have connected each of the drives to?Q9650 @ 4.10GHz [9x456MHz]
P35-DS4 [rev: 2.0] ~ Bios: F14
4x2GB OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 1094MHz @5-5-5-15
MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack (1GB) video card <---- SLI ---->
Seasonic SS-660XP2 80 Plus Platinum psu (660w)
WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB (data)
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD (boot)
SLI @ 16/4 works when running HyperSLICooler Master 120XL Seidon push/pull AIO cpu water cooling
Cooler Master HAF XB computer case (RC-902XB-KKN1)
Asus VH242H 24" monitor [1920x1080]
MSI N460GTX Hawk (1GB) video card
Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers
win7 x64 sp1 Home Premium
HT|Omega Claro plus+ sound card
CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD UPSE6300 (R0) @ 3.504GHz [8x438MHz] ~~ P35-DS3L [rev: 1.0] ~ Bios: F9 ~~ 4x2GB Kingston HyperX T1 PC2-8500, 876MHz @4-4-4-10
Seasonic X650 80+ gold psu (650w) ~~ Xigmatek Balder HDT 1283 cpu cooler ~~ Cooler Master CM 690 case (RC-690-KKN1-GP)
Samsung 830 128GB SSD MZ-7PC128B/WW (boot) ~~ WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB (data) ~~ ZM-MFC2 fan controller
HT|Omega Striker 7.1 sound card ~~ Asus VH242H monitor [1920x1080] ~~ Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers
win7 x64 sp1 Home Premium ~~ CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD U.P.S.
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Originally posted by profJim View PostYou might have better luck putting your active undelete software on a bootable usb flash drive.
What are the specific sata port names that you have connected each of the drives to?
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I seem to remember one time, a long time ago I was having a problem with installing windows xp on a dell system. Called dell support they diagnosed it, and sent a dude out to replace the MB. After replacement I had the same problem it would not boot to cd rom. Long story short I had a usb drive in a back port of my puter who the system thought it was the one. The all seeing... I removed the USB drive and all was normal again. Is this your problem? Maybe...maybe not....
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Originally posted by cornorstone View PostGee. I wish it was that easy. But, No, I have no USB drives in any port of my system. I just put this thing together 3 days ago.
Such as latest bios, make sure all MB drivers installed, including Intel drivers. Reset CMOS, reinstall windows. do all that stuff then try again...
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Originally posted by ibConners View PostI wish it were also. Man what would I do...Methinks I would just start over making sure all things are correct.
Such as latest bios, make sure all MB drivers installed, including Intel drivers. Reset CMOS, reinstall windows. do all that stuff then try again...
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
Just for yucks disconnect all drives from the SATA ports and plug the DVD drive into SATA_0 and see if it will boot with a bootable disk. If it does then shut down and connect the HDD and see what happens.
I would for sure clear CMOS first in case something got screwed in the bios, and maybe even reflash it.
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Re: Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????
question, do you know that the optical drive will boot on another system? do you know that the drive works as it should?
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