Boot Up Problems

[Albinoni]

I recently installed a Liteon 48246S CDRW into my PIII desktop PC. The burner is sharing the same cable with my Pioneer DVD ROM drive, plugged into the Secondary IDE port, setting my burner to Master and my DVD ROM to Slave.

Now when I tell the PC to reboot from CDROM (i.e boot sequence in CMOS settings) and I insert a CD into my Pioneer DVD drive, the DVD drive refused to boot the CD in the drive. I re booted the PC, went back into my CMOS and re checked everything, and still no luck. So this time I decicded to install the CD into the Liteon CDRW and when I rebooted the machine, it all worked very well, the Liteon did CDRW booted and started spinning. But I dont want to reboot from my CDRW and want to use my Pioneer as the main drive for installing software. Also I still want to keep my Liteon CDRW as a Master setting. I have my HDD attached to the Primary IDE port and set to Master.

Now another question. Also on my mobo I have another 2 IDE ports, these being Ultra 66 Pri IDE Port and Secondary IDE Port (both blue colour). What are these ports used for. I know they are IDE ports, but perhaps slightly slowly then the other two, being Ulta 66. Can I attach my burner or DVD to these ports.

Your help would be appreciated.

BTW I'm using a Gigabyte GA-BX2000+, Slot 1 PIII 500, 256MB RAM

[coolestnitish]

Oh man, same burner same manufacturer of DVD-Rom, same settings, same problem, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=8278
Did you put a DVD normally in Windows yet and see if it works? Try with Pio Mode and see if our problem is similar. I'm wondering what's going on myself.
I also have a PIII. Talk about coincidence, this is it..lol...