Cannot boot from CD or external USB

[Colin Law]

On 22 August 2014 12:06, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> Good evening
> So far nothing worked. I will summarize what I did so far
>
> (2014/08/21 19:50), compdoc wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as I remember the order:
>>> 1)    CD drive
>>> 2)    external USB drive
>>> 3)    internal HDD
>>> 4)    LAN (?)
>>> But I can move ONLY up and down through that list. The enter key does
>>> not work.
>>
>>
> Sorry, my mistake. #2 in the above list apparently refers to a floppy and
> not a USB drive; otherwise the BIOS setup looks OK to me.
> so, I guess, it would not help to make a bootable USB flash drive, wouldn't
> it?
>
> * cannot change the order, but #1 always comes first.
> * the CD drive is NOT broken; its reads the live CD as well as audio CDs
> just fine
> * regardless of whether I start the computer with the CD inserted or put it
> in later ->
> the computer ALWAYS boots from the HDD. AND

Will it boot from the windows CD that came with the PC (if you have
one), or any other CD for that matter?
As far as you know has it ever booted from CD?

Colin