The older motherboard BIOS didn't support booting from CDROM.
Also double check CDROM installation - orientation of ribbon cable, setting of master/slave jumper, connection of power.
If you can boot a Winxx startup disk, does the CD driver load okay? In the "DOS Mode" the driver loaded in config.sys and MSCDEX loaded in autoexec.bat must both load okay. Watch the message put out by MSCDEX and see if the CDROM drive is assigned a drive letter.
Once the system boots, you should be able to access the CDROM drive by its drive letter.
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I will never spend a another dime on content that I can’t use the way I please. If I can’t copy it to my hard drive and play it using the devices I want, when and where I want, I won’t be buying it. Period. They can all take their DRM, broadcast flags, rootkits, and Compact Discs that aren’t really compact discs and shove them up their bottom-lines.
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