startup problem: how to fix the optical drive?

My sister asked me to install a new copy of windows. First I tried to put the win7 dvd in the drive, it does not display the traditional press any key to boot from the cd/dvd. then I changed the settings in bios to boot from the cd, which gave no result. then I tried the boot to the optical drive option, it just went ahead and started from the hard drive. I thought it would be the dvd, the same results from a winxp cd. My next thought was the drive, it normally detected a bunch of random but refused to thank DVD that has the existence of a windows install disk. Please someone help stop harassing my sister

You can try this first: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/12/-the-usb-flash-drive.ars

Install the system and then study what is the problem with the optical drive. Make sure that it has the latest version of the BIOS...

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