Booting from cd(please help)

[andydrew126]

Can someone please help me. Every time I try booting from a cd it acts like it is gonna work but only shows a hyphen that blinks and nothing else. Once in a while though it will say "boot from cd-code 0" I tried clicking f12 and going to boot from cd-rom but even when i do that it shows the hyphen blinking at the top right of the screen, or "boot from cd-code 0"

specs:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001

Other OS Description: Not Available

OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation

System Name: ANDREW-PC

System Manufacturer: ACER

System Model: Aspire M5630

System Type: X86-based PC

Processor: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2200 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. R01-A3, 8/28/2007

SMBIOS: Version 2.5

Windows Directory: C:\Windows

System Directory: C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Locale: United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer: Version = "6.0.6001.18000"

User Name: andrew-PC\andrew

Time Zone: Central Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB

Available Physical Memory 2.13 GB

Total Virtual Memory 6.23 GB

Available Virtual Memory 5.38 GB

Page File Space 3.29 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

please help

[Tripredacus]

What CDs have you tried booting from? Can you boot from your Windows CD?

Typically, the inability to boot is a hardware problem.