Dear sir my dell 2600 server is booting problem. i am replacement for CD/ROM drive . show for bios.fist boot is CD/ROM .but not boot for server

optical drive troubleshooting is pretty straight forward, fist see if you can boot to the drive using a bootable CD like the Windows CD or your Dell Resource CD, use the F12 1 time boot menu test it.
Also see if the drive is detected by model in the BIOS (F2 at boot) if not seen, reseat both power and data cables, boot to BIOS F2, turn on CAP LOCK SCROLL LOCK, NUMLOCK, then press ALT+E then ALT+F then ALT+B, this resets bios defaults and forces hardware re-detection. If you have no floppy diskette drive, you'll need to turn that back off in the BIOS before the ALT+B
If all that is done and the drive isn't seen/cannot boot to with bootable media, swap the data cable with the HDD and try a different power connection.
If Drive still not connected, replaced the drive.
If drive is detected and IDd then try this
http://www.fixya.com/support/r6169039-cd_dvd_drive_disappears_in_windows

2600 does not support booting to USB devices.

u must either have one of the foll...to boot and install OS...also the seq in BIOS must be availabe and enabled
1 Floppy
2 CD Rom Drive - internal
3 CD Rim Drive - External connected thru USB
4 You can also try to connect a USB pen drive having the OS install program and try - I have not tried that so not sure if this option works...sorry
5 If u can open the machine then u can connect another internal HD(this can contain ur OS install files) to the cable (connector points in the flat cable) that connect your internal HD to the Motherboard.

if i can think of anything else i will post
all the best

Have you checked boot device options....from BIOS
Use F9 during boot to goto ROM-BIOS and change Boot device option to CDROM/DVDROM.
Insert Boot media or DVD-Win2003, to DVD-ROM device..
reboot Server, try now
If still issue.. Check to boot Server using some other media..
if other cd media works, then it could be DVD-Win2003 faulty, otherwise download firmware for CD/DVDROM and upgrade it and check if DVDROM works, otherwise you have to contact Dell Support..

Another common way around installation is to copy the whole contents of the CD / DVD to a hard drive.

There are a few methods.

My proffered is to make a bootable flash drive on another machine with known working capabilities that will bot into either an XP-pre installation scenario or a Dos based one.

From there it is often possible to start the installation or even copy the required files to a drive on a machine.

Advantage of copying the files is that the CD / DVD would never be needed to add additional component as they are stored on the machine itself.

That also speeds up installation dramatically.

Bios consideration mus be taken into account when booting from flash drives.

Proper external Hard drives are another viable option

you need to set the boot device priority in the BIOS in such a way that the computer will take an external CD/DVD-drive as first boot device. to do this, you need to enable USB legacy support first, save and exit from the BIOS settings and then return to the BIOS to set the USB-CD/DVD-drive as primary boot device.

Im pretty sure there is a usb boot option on mine - try going on the dell website and installing the latest BIOS firmware, you may notice this option become available as well as being up to date!

The Dell original standard CD drive shipped with the PE2600 is incapable of 'understanding' the latest generation of bootable CD's (no matter what the BIOS says).

As far as I can tell, it's not fixable in the firmware ..

However you can swap it out for a more modern drive - such as the TS-L462C (which is a plug in replacement combined DVD reader / CD reader/writer - and Dell post the required drivers on their PE 2600 web pages, so I assume it must be a 'supported' solution)

you need to set the boot device order. Usually F12.
or you can go to bios with F2 or F10.

your cd-rom is wrong you need the Instalation and Server Management CD. I think it's possible to download this cd at their site.

good luck

Same solution as posted before if you need to boot from a DVD: take a Dell laptop CD/DVD combo drive, remove the screws and all and exchange the PowerVault CD drive unit with it. Same internal connector. Can't remember what model I stuck in, but I had to keep the front panel of the drive since it was slightly different, I probably could have glued it, but.... That's a server machine no one is ever going to see but me! :)

That also gave me a CD-Burner which is a decent addition in case you need to quickly burn a CD/make a backup/boot disk (like a "ultimate Windows CD" boot to fix anything that could go wrong).