• Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!

Troubles with BIOS and booting to CD

Overclockers is supported by our readers. When you click a link to make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Learn More.

Herr Rogers

Member
Joined
Oct 1, 2005
I'm sitting here, staring at the bios, restarting and not knowing what to do. The computer I have doesn't have a cd-rom drive..or it does, but it's broken. So I have to use an external USB cd-rom drive for all my cd needs. Now, I need to do some testing on this computer, but I'm not sure how to boot to a CD. Here's the choices I'm given:

CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
Diskette Drive
USB Storage Device
Internal HDD
Modular Bay HDD
Onboard NIC
Cardbus NIC
D/Dock PCI Slot NIC

Even if I tell my BIOS to go through all of these, it still will not boot from a CD in my external CD-Rom drive. ANy ideas?
 
Back