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Acer laptop won't boot from CD

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Acer Aspire 5720 with insyde h20 BIOS

It just wont boot from the CDROM. I was trying to put Ubuntu on there, and have tried other boot disks, but it just wont boot any.
I set the boot order to have "USB CDROM" at the top, and the disk does spin quite a lot, as if the CD in the drive isn't bootable.

Anyone else have similar issue and found a resolve?

And why does the BIOS label the CDROM as a "USB" CDROM? It is an internal one.

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Make sure there isn't an option for internal CD-ROM. Usually it's a separate option for internal and external CD-ROM.

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Doh!

And there it was!
I cannot believe I didn't look closely enough for that!

So, why list a USB on board one as well as another internal one? It also lists a USB Hard drive, as well as the internal one.

Cheers

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