Will a system boot for DVD or does it need to be a CD-rom drive? :-?
I had a system crash due to memory and harddrive, at least that is what I have determined the problem.
I have 2 DVD drives installed, a Pioneer 111-D - master and a BenQ LightScribe - slave.
I have my O/S on a 250gig drive.
Upon my system creashing, I was going to try to figure out what the problem was but when I insert the XP Pro cd in the Pioneer dvd drive, I can see the light come on but it will not allow the cd to boot. I have change the bios to allow the cd to be the first drive to be reconized.
After some working around the problem, I finally got my harddrive reformatted and with a new O/S and made sure that there were no problems with checkdisk.
I then proceeded to install additional software for the motherboard which has integrated stuff on it. It asked for a reboot and now the drive will not boot up as it needs to fix pci.dll? I think that is the file.
It mentions on the screen to insert the XP cd and to a "r" which I believe is a repair of MISSING or bad files.
BUT I can not get the DVD drive to recognize my XP cd.
Any thoughts how I can get around this?

My first thought was to create a boot floopy disk with cd drivers and boot from it and maybe have it recognize the dvd drive and then I can run setup.exe off of the cd.
But I can not find drivers nor is my memory good ENOUGH to remember how to do this. Been a while since I have had to do this.
I am stressed and confused and pissed off.

Any thoughts or HELP here would be great.
thanks
dwDVD, CD, shouldn't matter. Either should be recognized if your BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM. Is Device Manager showing both DVD drives and indicating they are working properly? Do they both play music or video OK?

Do you have the master DVD drive connected to the end of the data cable and the slave connected to the middle connector? If not, try changing this and see whether it MAKES a difference. You also might try disconnecting one of the DVD drives and configuring the remaining one as master.
The problem is that I can not get to the harddrive to see if there is anything there. I was updating some software and it stated I needed to reboot for the new files to take affect.
After doing so, I get a message that says some files needs to be updated and to reinsert my OS cd and have it 'Repair' the file in question.
So now I need to get the drive to recognize my CD.
I SENT a question to the motherboard folks and they said I possibly needed to start pressing the F8 key to envoke a BBS popup menu to force the system to boot from the cd.Quote

I sent a question to the motherboard folks and they said I possibly needed to start pressing the F8 key to envoke a BBS popup menu to force the system to boot from the cd.