negative, I understand how you could have been mislead by my post. The CD-Rom is not being recongnized by bios at all. the options I have for boot order are a:\, c:\, c:\.a:\. or just c:\
I do not have the option of booting from the CD, because as far as bios knows I do not have one.
Im sorry, I should've been more speciffic in my original question, I know I probably sound ignorant to most of you better versed with computers, but how would I make bios know the cd rom is there? thanks to anyone with the time to reply