PC wont boot from DVD drive

MooMoo444 · 30 Oct 2015 at 10:43

Tried everything I can think of but I cant get this damned thing to boot from the DVD drive. The drive works, reads discs fine, drive is as boot priority in the BIOS, however when I boot from it, the PC thinks about it for a sec then just opens the BIOS again.

Board is a Maximus Formula VI.

What am I doing wrong here?

Dalandius · 30 Oct 2015 at 13:59

A quick check on-line of the manual (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/MAXIMUS-VI-FORMULA/E8336_Maximus_VI_Formula.pdf)(page ix) tell me that the ASmedia SATA ports are only for data hards drive. ATAPI devices are not supported. I think you have to plug the DVD drive into one of the Intel SATA ports instead.

MooMoo444 · 31 Oct 2015 at 02:07

That could be it, I will try a different port

Thank you matey

VKleita · 31 Oct 2015 at 09:54

Dalandius said:
A quick check on-line of the manual (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/MAXIMUS-VI-FORMULA/E8336_Maximus_VI_Formula.pdf)(page ix) tell me that the ASmedia SATA ports are only for data hards drive. ATAPI devices are not supported. I think you have to plug the DVD drive into one of the Intel SATA ports instead.

Done exactly same thing.

easy way I found to test this is keep pressing F12 on boot up, you then get the "Quick boot menu", if you can see the CD drive there you know its working right