can't boot from cd-rom

[Ronin]

I was just going to mention that. My old PC-Craps board does the same ting to me. You need that setting on to be able to boot from floppy even if boot from floppy is selected.

Well, well, well, the same problem happened again but with a twist this time.
Here's what I'm working with:

Same motherboard
IDE-0 connects to my hard drive(master) & dvd-rom(slave).

IDE-1 connects to new cd-rom(master) & cd-rw(slave).

All jumpers are correct and I have disconnected everything except the hard drive & cd-rom in question. Still, I am unable to boot anything from the cd-rom.
Call me crazy but I think the motherboard is just a p.o.s. I'd love to replace the motherboard with an Abit or Asus but my financial consultant, E.F. Nuttin', says no. Any ideas? Thank you.