P965 NeoF + PATA DVD drive + Hiren's Boot CD == CD not found!!!

Hi all,
I have got NEC 3551 installed as slave along with a master IDE hard drive. I am trying to get Hiren's Boot CD to load properly without any success. When I select any of the available menu choices and the CD DOS driver tries to install I get error messages of CD drive not found... Has anyone of you succeeded in loading Hiren's Boot CD at all with this board?
Thanks in advance for you replies.

Quote from: S.O.D. on 20-December-06, 18:26:24
Problem with playing DVD occured just whew days ago, ihave MSI neo P965 and JMICRON latest online driver 1.4 i guess,'
i have Conneced seagate 160gb sata in jmicron sata port , LG's DVD combo ram driver in IDE , when i put the dvd in drive starts normally to run but just when i click in my VLC play , problems begins whole PC freezes and no else solutiion than switch off the power..
dont own a floppy drive..
Quote from: S.O.D. on 21-December-06, 18:48:28
Last evening suddenly had a blue screen , and i couldn log to windows, had to work to late night that i could get this machine to boot to windows, and i seriously suspect its that friggin JMICRON !id change my sata wire to other port and i manged to log in windows..is there a working driver for that JMICRON??
Well everything else seems to wotk properly but some DVD' movies and couple of DVD rom games wont run at all..
dam that JMICRON..
S.O.D., can you open a new thread instead? I wanted to help you on your problem but it's difficult to do that in this thread. Thanks.

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It's probable that you have a bad DVD drive. You can take it to an Apple Genius to see if they can fix or repair it (if it's under warranty). If it isn't, you can replace the DVD drive with a hard drive or a new Super Drive by yourself (it's a tiny bit technical). If you're still on warranty or have the extended AppleCare, you can get it fixed.

P965 NeoF + PATA DVD drive + Hiren's Boot CD == CD not found!!!

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