Problem booting SATA DVD on GA-P35-DS3L

[coolvoodoo]

There is no choice for SATA in the BIOS boot order. There is a choice for CDROM, but no matter how I set the boot order, even if I set them all to CDROM, it always boots from the HD. My system is all SATA (no IDE HDs or DVDs)..........Any ideas?

 

[g-paw]

Is the DVD actually recognized in the BIOS? Check all the BIOS settings for your drives. Boot order should be DVD, hdd with OS, and then the rest.

 

[coolvoodoo]

Thanks g-paw.
Solved it thanks to Roadrunner in DVD section........He got me thinking and I realized that on the GA-P35-DS3L only the SATA 0/1 connector is capable of booting from SATA. Swapped cables around and booted from DVD.

 

[g-paw]

Congrats

 

[airness]

Hey I think I might have a similar problem. This is my first post on Toms and didn't know where else to turn to. Been trying to fix this 24/7 for the past few days.

I got a ga-p35-ds3l with e6550.
2 SATA HD, 1 that has XP (I wanna install vista now)
2 ATA HD, 1 Hooked up. until i get the IDE cable with the xtra connector
1 pioneer dvr-111d.

I set one of the SATA to first disk boot priority but set the cd-rom as first boot device. I put vista in but it won't boot. I'm not sure if its bios settings or something but I've just been frustrated lately because I've tried everything.

Further info: I've set the IDE HD as master and the cd-rom as slave. So jumper settings are right. If i disconnect the IDE HD and the sata without OS on it, then it always gives me disk boot failure when i try to boot disc in cd-rom.

However If i connect everything together then sometimes it will load to desktop but whenever I use it, it will randomly blank screen and cpu usage will strike for no reason.

Drive is not faulty because I tried with a different cd-drive. same errors. Not faulty HDs either because I've tried to set other HDs as first priority so maybe I can install OS to there. Still no luck.

Really need and will appreciate the help. Thanks in advance.

 

[g-paw]

Further info: I've set the IDE HD as master and the cd-rom as slave. So jumper settings are right. If i disconnect the IDE HD and the sata without OS on it, then it always gives me disk boot failure when i try to boot disc in cd-rom.

However If i connect everything together then sometimes it will load to desktop but whenever I use it, it will randomly blank screen and cpu usage will strike for no reason.

Suggest you create a new post, will get better responses. Post which drive the OS is on. The above sounds like you disconnecting the hdd with the OS on it

 

[gwolfman]

Thanks g-paw.
Solved it thanks to Roadrunner in DVD section........He got me thinking and I realized that on the GA-P35-DS3L only the SATA 0/1 connector is capable of booting from SATA. Swapped cables around and booted from DVD.

That's worth knowing, thanks for the info.