redasphalt

I downloaded that file and made a driver disk, but I'm still having trouble getting it to boot.

When I press F11 it says "boot selection menu opened" on that line instead of "press F11 for boot selection menu", but it doesn't actually open any menu and just goes ahead and hangs at the same point.

I tried going in the BIOS and setting the DVD drive as first boot device and later on removing all the rest so the DVD drive was the only boot device, but it still doesn't boot off it.

It detects it (even the model number) so it seems to be connected properly, but it doesn't even try to boot off it -- the light on the drive never even lights up except for blinking the second power first comes on and any time I put in a new disc.

I'm starting to think maybe the motherboard is bad, but I really hope there's something simple I'm missing so I don't need to go through all the hassle of returning it.