Cant boot from CD

[Chipotle]

Hey, I am at a loss, never had this problem before. I just put it all together last night and powered on and put in the cd to install the OS, but I cannot get the dang thing to boot from cd.
The board is a MSI K8N Neo FSR. I know the drive is good, its a working pull from my main box. I am using it on the IDE1 channel as master and the master jumper is set. My HD is a SATA1. The setup lists the device model information. I even set it to boot from cd-rom first.
But nothing happens. It gets to the point where it says "Boot from cd" and then sits there and then says something about Nforce boot something. Then after a minute gives me an error asking me to check the cable. But the cables are all seated good. And the ide cable is a brand new one.

I have tried a different cd-rom and an older problematic ide hd and got errors saying unable to load the os, which was kinda expected, but it never gave me the option to boot from the cd. And yes the cd is good, i just installed from it 2 days prior.

So i am at a loss, here, not sure if there could be a conflict from the SATA stuff. First time dealing with that. The board was a new one from ebay, but came with no manuals, just all the cables. I'm gonna give it another go tonight, and check the settings, and after that will have to go through MSI.

If ya got any suggestions or ?'s let me know.

 

[darkmyth]

is the cdrom jumper set to master if its on its own ide channel or slave if the last input on the channel and another ide device on the middle connecter?

double check all of your settings as well in bios. Make sure the board is recognizing everything. Then try another run at it, otherwise you might have a faulty peice of equipment in there.

I've never worked with sata myself so I don't really know if that could be causing you issues or not.

 

[Tigerbiten]

One thing to try.

Make a bootable CD and put the memtest iso on it.
Have that as the only drive in your system.
Does that work ?

Also try the other ide channel.

Luck.......