Can't boot the pc by CD ROM - MSI KM2M Combo-L (MS-6738-010) Motherboard

If you want to boot from a external cd/dvd rom here's what to do.

1. Connect your USB CD/DVD ROM to your computer.
   
2. After connecting, you must start from boot up. so Reboot your computer.
3. You must go to your bios settings, so during boot, press DELETE or if it doesn't work reboot again and try F2.
4. Now once on the bios settings, search for the boot device, or boot priority.
5. You must make your USB CD/DVD ROM as First boot, or just place it at the top of the list.
6. You can adjust the position by pressing (-)minus and (+)plus signs in your keyboard.
7. Now once the USB CD/DVD ROM is at the top. press F10 to save the changes and click Yes.
8. And that's it. Your PC will now boot from the USB CD/DVD ROM.

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Your cd rom from which you are trying to boot is corrupted so try booting with another ****

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Hi,
If it is DVD Drive, then sometimes in BIOS you'll also find the option for DVD Drive together with CD Drive. Choose the correct one and boot your PC.
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HELLO THERE
If you go into bios and change the boot sequense to the cd rom first than the c drive than you should be able to just put the cd rom in the drive and turn off the computer and restart and when it turns back on it should say pressany key to boot from cd rom
and to be perfectly honest with you as long as this is a bootable cd rom you should just have to put in thecd rom and reboot the computer and it should come up just like i said earlier ok?
but if not do like i said and change the boot configuration so the computer boots from the cd rom first ok?
I hope that this has been very helpful for you
best regards mike

Check the BIOS to make sure that the CD rom is the first boot devices in the bootup sequence, also make sure that the cd rom does show up in the BIOS.
Make sure that the CD Rom itself is good or the boot cd you are using is good, try it on other PC.

if you want to boot your computer with cd you have to set first boot device in bios as your cd rom or dvd rom,
for that when you power up computer press F2 or "del" then you enter in bios then go to boot option then set first devcie as dvd or cd rom .
then save all settings then exit.

do your bios update

Basically you need to go to Bios to change your "Boot device pripority". Please follow these steps to do this.

Please follow these steps to install XP on your PC.

1. Please start your PC with power button. At the very first screen, at the left down corner, you will see the button to be pressed to go to Setup i.e. Bios of the PC. For most of the PCs , it is delete button. For some of them, it is F2 also. So, after starting the PC press Del to go into setup.

2. After you enter setup of the PC, please go to Advance bios setup.

3. There you select Boot device priority.

4. here the first boot device priority should be CD ROM, then the HDD. Please see the instructions given at right down corner and select this priority.

5. After you rightly selected boot device priority as given above, Press F10 to save the changes and then press F12 to exit.

6. Now the PC will restart again, but be sure that you put win XP cd in the drive before it restarts.

7. Now you will see a note that : press any key to boot from CD ROM, so please press any key.

8. The PC will boot from the CD ROM now , now you can follow the instructions given on the screen.

when the pc in post usually on dells bios there is a boot menu option it is usually f12
if you don't know what your doing in the bios it is not a good place to test your skills after pressing F12 just choose cd rom for boot

the first thing that i would do is see if you can go into safe mode and try booting from there . when it comes up choose the one that is already hilighted. if it still wont boot then open up the tower and unplug the power from the cd rom. if it is your cd rom i would go and by another one or return the cd rom.

hope this works