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I am trying to run memtest on a new build and for some reason, the machine will not boot from the disc drive. I'm positive that it CAN boot from the disc drive because I just installed windows 7x64 on it last night. I have already configured the BIOS to boot from CDROM as it's first choice and selected to boot from CDROM thru the boot menu. I am 100% positive that this memtest disc is good because I just successfully ran it on my main machine with no problems. What do I do? Thanks for your help in advance!

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ps. to power the disc drive I am using a 4-pin molex to SATA adapter since my PSU only has 2 SATA pwr connectors and they are being used to power my 2 HDD's. I don't know if this has to do with it...could it be a bad adapter not powering the drive at initial startup? Bear in mind that the drive works fine once I'm in the OS.
 
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Windows 7 64bit
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Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H
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Cooler master 310
Run windows Memory Diagnostic from Windows when you start the machine and you are in windows, it will give to the choice to restart, and it will do it "Run" the next time you start your machine,I think you will have to go back into your Bios and tell it to boot from your harddrive first by the sounds of what your saying.
 

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well I wasn't able to figure out what the issue was, but in the meantime I ran Memtest from an bootable usb drive with no problem. I'm still very curious as to why it would not run from the disc drive on this new build, but it will on my other machine....oh well.
 

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Windows 7 64bitAMD Phenom II X4 9254GB KIT (2X2GB) DDR3 PATRIOT PVS34G1600LLK
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom
OS
Windows 7 64bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 925
Motherboard
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H
Memory
4GB KIT (2X2GB) DDR3 PATRIOT PVS34G1600LLK
Hard Drives
500GB seagate
Case
Cooler master 310
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