Hey all,

I have a BFG Tech 680i nVidia SLI board that I just got back from an RMA (sent the old one in, USB controller went bad) and I noticed that it was always giving me the "Boot from CD..." dialogue even though there was no CD in the drive and I had thought I had changed the BIOS so the HDD was the primary boot. I started having problems with Office 2007 programs crashing on exit and always asking me if I wanted to load the changes to the Normal template even though I hadn't changed it. I'd already dealt with that problem on my mom's computer, for about 2 months over the phone and then also in person and I had almost zero luck, the problem finally went away w/o me doing much of anything. Anyway, I just voted to format the thing and start clean but I can't boot to the cd. Any changes I make to the BIOS are saved and show up when I go back in, but computer doesn't seem to follow them. I even removed the HDD from the boot list all together and it still boots normally. Also during the "Boot from CD..." prompt it ignores the fact that I actually have a Vista cd in there. I got nothin....I haven't tried resetting the CMOS yet, I think I'm going to try that tomorrow, the battery and jumpers are just burried in there and I wanted to see if anybody had any thoughts. Thanks!

Do you press the "any key" when you get the CD prompt?

Yeah I tried, it doesn't do any thing...it also doesn't ask in the way the Vista cd usually asks...it says "Boot from CD..." as opposed to "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD....I mean I don't have an any key...

Anyway: just another quick verification: your CD drive is a DVD drive? Yes?

The Vista disk is a DVD. Sorry for the simplicity but just wanted to check.

I don't know what BFG did to your board but there is/ would have been a good chance that you would have needed to reinstall your operating system no matter what.

So assuming your drive is a DVD/CD drive the question is why won't the Vista DVD boot?

Just out of curiosity do you have another boot CD you can test just to see if it boots?

Oooo nice, I need to get me one of those, think of all of the time I could have saved staring at my keyboard screaming "I don't have one!".....

I actually ended up figuring out what was wrong with it...I'm just really stupid...the DVD I was using wasn't bootable for some reason even though I burned it straight from an iso file and I thought the settings weren't changing because it booted correctly even when I had disabled the HDD as a boot device. Apparently the 680i automatically boots to the HDD if everything else isn't bootable...

anyway, thanks for the help, sorry to waste your time

No problem. Glad all is well.

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