Hey guys all my cpu details should be in my signature. I have a cd-rw/dvd combo drive as a slave drive and a dvd-rw drive as the master. I am trying to boot a linux gOS space live cd but when im booting up it is not detecting the cd. I noticed it had done this before when I was trying to boot an Ubuntu Live cd so I had the cd add a temporary boot program that helped me boot from the disc. When I go into my bios I have to press enter to auto detect my cd rom drives as a master and slave and if I save and exit and come back they wont be showing. Any ideas? P35-DS3L motherboard. Thanks guys! 500W PS Radeon HD X2600 Gigabyte P35-DS3L 2gb Ballistix 4-4-4-12 DDR2

Are the CD-Roms attached to the IDE1 port on the mother board, or in the IDE2 spot?

Some bioses will only boot from one of the optical drives. Look in the bios Setup, probably somewhere near the boot order settings, for a list of the two optical drive models. The one you want to boot has to be on top of the list - you can change the order they are listed in. It usually doesn't matter whether they are master or slave, just the order in the list matters. If either or both are SATA connected, there are often some SATA headers you can't boot a drive from. E.g. Red - you can boot from , Black you can't.

Well there is only one IDE port. I actually was able to fix the problem by going into the BIOS and after that there was a setting that was set to "None" instead of 'Auto' and setting it to Auto seemed to help. I cant remember if I changed anything else but if anyone is interested I will double check. 500W PS Radeon HD X2600 Gigabyte P35-DS3L 2gb Ballistix 4-4-4-12 DDR2