ASUS P5Q-E CD/DVD drive boot question

N

NattyBo

n00b
Joined
Sep 22, 2009
Messages
16
With my other PCs (re: different motherboards) I have ask, after POSTing, if I wish to boot from a disk in the CD/DVD drive if there was one in there whether it be a bootable disk or not. With my ASUS P5Q-E it didn't ask at all. If a bootable disk (Windows, Norton Ghost, the ASUS support disk, etc) is in the CD/DVD drive it boots straight onto it. Is the P5Q-E meant to do this? Or is this because I have no OS installed yet on any hard drives?
 
If the BIOS is set to boot from a disk, it will always boot from it. Certain disks have bootloaders that allow you to cancel booting from the CD and go back to booting from the HD (such as Windows installation disks). However, that isn't up to the BIOS. If you don't want it to boot from a disk automatically, change the boot order in the BIOS. There may also be a key that you can press during POST to bring up a menu that will allow you to select the device you wish to boot from, which you can use in the future if you ever want to boot off of an optical disk.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top