My over three year old MOBO boots DVDs fine when I select the DVD drive as
the primary boot drive in my BIOS.
Does your BIOS not see the drive? And if it does are you sure that you can
not in your BIOS select it as the primary (1ST) Boot device?
"Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uBex46P#JHA.5040@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hello again!
> Quote:
>> Not really a Vista related question as any computer capable of running
>> Vista will be capable of booting from DVD.
>
> Not quite! We tested it at work: only machines younger than a year could
> boot from a DVD-Drive.
>
> The older computers are not that old: about 3 to 4 years, with CPUs faster
> than 3 GHz. But all of them failed to boot from an Install-DVD-ROM.
> But you could install Vista as a second operation system.
>
> But we did not try out yet a new DVD-Drive in an older computer, so we
> would have found out ourselves. That is why we asked to find out without
> testing it.
>
> Greetings Manfred
>
>
>
> Quote:
>> If the machine is so old that the BIOS doesn't support booting from DVD,
>> it isn't going to run Vista anyway.
>>
>>
>> "Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ee2svpN%23JHA.1376@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Why do older computers not boot from a DVD-Drive?
>>>
>>> Is it the DVD-Drive or the mainboard (with its BIOS or the onboard
>>> controller)?
>>>
>>> Thanks Manfred
>>