comp won't boot from cd drive

[McClintoc]

i just finished putting together my new comp and have finished setting up the bios. now i am ready to format the hdd and then install windows. i have a maxtor hdd and i have the maxtor cd for booting and formating, but for some reason, my comp won't boot from the cd. everything is getting power, all the ide cables are connected properly and the system recognises all the disk drives (hdd, floppy, sony dvd-rom & yamaha cd-burner) but when it goes to boot from the cd, it stops. the dos-type load screen lists the two rom drives and then says "IDE device drivers installed" and then stops. any ideas as to what is going on, or not going on? i have played around with the boot order, such as having it boot floppy, then cd, then hdd as well as having boot cd, then hdd with floppy disabled; same result regardless of boot order. any help is much appreciated.

 

[McClintoc]

any ideas?

 

[reddhaus]

Seems to me if you have everything hooked up properly it has to be a bios problem.

I would keep working on bios.

What kind of mobo do you have?

You should have an option that says something like "Load optimized defaults".

Try that and see if it helps.

 

[McClintoc]

i have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board. i'll the optimized defaults and see if that does anything.