My computer can see my optical drive in bios then can't on boot.

Techn0Smile · Jan 27, 2015

I just finished building my first computer and everything was going perfect up until the point of booting off of the optical drive. I went into the bios and unplugged everything to make sure that the computer only saw the disk drive, and it did, i left the bios and after a few seconds it said "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press any key"
so at first i was like well ok ill just open the disk drive and close it without moving the windows 8.1 disk. I pressed enter and it came up again. I really just want to use my computer can someone please answer me.

littleleo · Jan 27, 2015

Did you list the optical drive in the BIOS as a boot device? There should be a Boot order you can set in the BIOS and you should have the DVDRW & the hard drive you are doing the installation listed on it the DVDRW 1st.

Techn0Smile · Jan 27, 2015

littleleo :

yes, it was, it was the only thing plugged in, at first i had the disk drive, an ssd, and a hdd plugged in and the drive was the first in line. After this didnt work then i unplugged the ssd and the hdd.

littleleo · Jan 27, 2015

Is it set as an IDE spec in BIOS?

Techn0Smile · Jan 28, 2015

littleleo :

Im new to this obviosly so i don't know what that is BUT i did figure it out, I just unplugged it then took out the disk drive and moved it outside of my computer and plugged it back in and it worked! I dont know why, maybe you or someone else does but ya...

littleleo · Jan 29, 2015

Techn0Smile :

That's great! I was going to recommend sacrificing a virgin at the next full moon, lol.

Techn0Smile · Jan 30, 2015

littleleo :

i want to pick that as the solution so bad but i think the moderators would frown upon that.
EDIT: I think i might have to though because i cant pick my own as the solution.

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