CPU Recognizes Windows 7 CD, but will not boot

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I have just recently built a computer and turned it on for the first time. Everything went well when I inserted the motherboard CD to physically see everything working on the computer. After doing this, I put the Windows 7 CD into the disk drive and closed it. The boot manual actually recognizes it, but doesn't boot. I have tried countless times to get it to boot, but nothing happens. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
 
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I would begin to suspect either the DVD drive itself is faulty, or the Windows 7 DVD is scratched. How old is the DVD drive? I've had problems in the past with older drives failing to read new discs.
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Not sure what you mean by "the boot manual", but you need to make sure that the bios is set up to boot from the dvd drive (it IS a DVD drive isn't it - Windows 7 comes on a DVD, not a CD).
Once the bios is set up properly, re-start the pc and it should boot from the dvd.
 
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Thank you for responding.

By boot manual, I mean the motherboard GUI, where you can set up your boot settings, etc. I have it set up to boot from the DVD drive, but it just fails too. It is a DVD drive, my apologies. I have restarted it multiple times, and tries to load but fails and resets back to default.
 
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I would begin to suspect either the DVD drive itself is faulty, or the Windows 7 DVD is scratched. How old is the DVD drive? I've had problems in the past with older drives failing to read new discs.
 
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