Yes, most motherboards are set to auto-detect hard drives and optical drives everytime you power it on. In rare cases you might have to enter the BIOS setup menu in order to manually toggle the auto-detect feature. Any attached drives, the amount of installed RAM, and the CPU clockspeed are usually displayed at power-on. Check to see if the hard disk and optical drive are reported. You may have to enable this feature in the BIOS menu.
Firstly, you wanna make sure your Windows CD is bootable. I used to know which ones would boot, but lately I forget. I'm thinking that 'upgrade' versions will not boot. Microsoft expects that you'll initially boot from the 'full version', install it, then run the 'upgrade' version installer from within the existing Windows installation. BUT...You don't need to install the 'full version' of Windows AT ALL and it'll be an hour wasted. Ideally, you want to install the 'upgrade version' FIRST, then just let the setup thingy prompt you for a peek at the 'full version' Windows CD. It just wants to verify that you do own a full version copy. Only takes a few seconds to verify compliance, as opposed to an hour if you choose to install the 'full version' first, and avoid the compliance check. Other than the compliance check included in the 'upgrade version', there is zero difference between 'full version' and 'upgrade version' Windows disks.
If your Windows CD is not bootable, you need to create a bootable floppy disk or burn a bootable CD containing system files and CDROM driver. Or you can use an existing Windows installation to create a "Windows Start-up disk" (floppy). Or you can go to www.bootdisk.com and download a suitable disk image. The goal is to provide a bare minimum OS with a CDROM driver. You don't need to do this for a bootable Windows CD.
The motherboard has lots of features for booting. Generally, you choose a priority for each bootable device. Basic choices for booting include CDROM, Hard disk 0, Hard disk 1, floppy, network, etc. If you don't have a floppy disk, you'll want to make sure that 'CDROM' takes a higher priority than any hard disks or anything else. Arrange the boot order to where 'CDROM' is first and 'hard disk 0' is second. It probably won't matter which devices come next. Here's what your boot order should look like, assuming you have no floppy: CDROM, Hard Disk 0, whatever else . The motherboard will look for a bootable CD first (on ALL installed CDROM/DVDROM drives) - if none exists, then it continue to the next device on the list, the hard drive 0 (primary IDE/ATA channel and jumpered to master like you stated)...where your Windows bootloader will (eventually) reside.
Once you power-up the machine for the first time, you want to go into the BIOS (firmware) menu and adjust the date/time, arrange the boot order, and disable any "boot virus protection" (else the Windows installer won't be able to write anything to the hard disk boot sector!! this really sucks, btw, because it's hard to figure out WHY Windows won't install). Generally, all other default BIOS settings should be fine where they are. Read the motherboard user manual and familiarize yourself with the features and settings. The 'default' settings are 'safe' settings - and that means slow and stable. There are likely a lot of performance features, too, but you'll have to enable them manually. Do that later, if you wish, after the Windows installation.
When your BIOS setup options are complete, you're ready to load Windows. If your Windows CD is bootable, you'll get a message after the motherboard POST (power-on self-test) asking if you want to boot from the CD. Usually, for about 3-5 seconds you'll see "Press any key to boot from CDROM" displayed on your monitor. Press a key to boot from the Windows CD. You'll get a Windows menu. Choose "install Windows". If you don't press any keys, the motherboard will skip to the next device in the boot order (hard disk 0). Since Windows will restart the computer several times during installation, it's important that you do not allow it to boot from the CDROM during those restarts...so don't press any keys if it asks - let it time-out after a few seconds and then it'll continue on to the hard disk.
If your Windows CD is not bootable:
Use a bootable CD containing system files. You'll arrive at a commandline window showing just a cursor beside the current drive letter (probably 'D'). Swap the CD for the Windows CD, type 'setup', and press enter - you'll see the Windows setup menu screen.
If you have only a bootable floppy disk or Windows Start-up disk - you want to make sure that floppy drive is listed first and before CDROM and hard disks in your BIOS boot-order menu. Insert the floppy disk, power-on the machine, and it should boot from the floppy disk - leaving you with nothing but a cursor beside an A-prompt. A: is the drive letter assigned to floppy drives. When you see "A:>" then type D: (or whatever drive letter is assigned to your CDROM drive) and press enter. Now you should see nothing but "D:>" So then type 'setup' and press enter. That should launch the executeable named "setup.exe" that is found on the disk in drive D: - which is the Windows setup menu.
Apple offers a built-in "minimal OS" as part of its machine's firmware. This provides the CDROM drivers and other stuff required for installing an OS. It is essentially the equivalent of a Windows start-up floppy disk & a boot manager - without the need for a drive or disk.
Firstly, you wanna make sure your Windows CD is bootable. I used to know which ones would boot, but lately I forget. I'm thinking that 'upgrade' versions will not boot. Microsoft expects that you'll initially boot from the 'full version', install it, then run the 'upgrade' version installer from within the existing Windows installation. BUT...You don't need to install the 'full version' of Windows AT ALL and it'll be an hour wasted. Ideally, you want to install the 'upgrade version' FIRST, then just let the setup thingy prompt you for a peek at the 'full version' Windows CD. It just wants to verify that you do own a full version copy. Only takes a few seconds to verify compliance, as opposed to an hour if you choose to install the 'full version' first, and avoid the compliance check. Other than the compliance check included in the 'upgrade version', there is zero difference between 'full version' and 'upgrade version' Windows disks.
If your Windows CD is not bootable, you need to create a bootable floppy disk or burn a bootable CD containing system files and CDROM driver. Or you can use an existing Windows installation to create a "Windows Start-up disk" (floppy). Or you can go to www.bootdisk.com and download a suitable disk image. The goal is to provide a bare minimum OS with a CDROM driver. You don't need to do this for a bootable Windows CD.
The motherboard has lots of features for booting. Generally, you choose a priority for each bootable device. Basic choices for booting include CDROM, Hard disk 0, Hard disk 1, floppy, network, etc. If you don't have a floppy disk, you'll want to make sure that 'CDROM' takes a higher priority than any hard disks or anything else. Arrange the boot order to where 'CDROM' is first and 'hard disk 0' is second. It probably won't matter which devices come next. Here's what your boot order should look like, assuming you have no floppy: CDROM, Hard Disk 0, whatever else . The motherboard will look for a bootable CD first (on ALL installed CDROM/DVDROM drives) - if none exists, then it continue to the next device on the list, the hard drive 0 (primary IDE/ATA channel and jumpered to master like you stated)...where your Windows bootloader will (eventually) reside.
Once you power-up the machine for the first time, you want to go into the BIOS (firmware) menu and adjust the date/time, arrange the boot order, and disable any "boot virus protection" (else the Windows installer won't be able to write anything to the hard disk boot sector!! this really sucks, btw, because it's hard to figure out WHY Windows won't install). Generally, all other default BIOS settings should be fine where they are. Read the motherboard user manual and familiarize yourself with the features and settings. The 'default' settings are 'safe' settings - and that means slow and stable. There are likely a lot of performance features, too, but you'll have to enable them manually. Do that later, if you wish, after the Windows installation.
When your BIOS setup options are complete, you're ready to load Windows. If your Windows CD is bootable, you'll get a message after the motherboard POST (power-on self-test) asking if you want to boot from the CD. Usually, for about 3-5 seconds you'll see "Press any key to boot from CDROM" displayed on your monitor. Press a key to boot from the Windows CD. You'll get a Windows menu. Choose "install Windows". If you don't press any keys, the motherboard will skip to the next device in the boot order (hard disk 0). Since Windows will restart the computer several times during installation, it's important that you do not allow it to boot from the CDROM during those restarts...so don't press any keys if it asks - let it time-out after a few seconds and then it'll continue on to the hard disk.
If your Windows CD is not bootable:
Use a bootable CD containing system files. You'll arrive at a commandline window showing just a cursor beside the current drive letter (probably 'D'). Swap the CD for the Windows CD, type 'setup', and press enter - you'll see the Windows setup menu screen.
If you have only a bootable floppy disk or Windows Start-up disk - you want to make sure that floppy drive is listed first and before CDROM and hard disks in your BIOS boot-order menu. Insert the floppy disk, power-on the machine, and it should boot from the floppy disk - leaving you with nothing but a cursor beside an A-prompt. A: is the drive letter assigned to floppy drives. When you see "A:>" then type D: (or whatever drive letter is assigned to your CDROM drive) and press enter. Now you should see nothing but "D:>" So then type 'setup' and press enter. That should launch the executeable named "setup.exe" that is found on the disk in drive D: - which is the Windows setup menu.
Apple offers a built-in "minimal OS" as part of its machine's firmware. This provides the CDROM drivers and other stuff required for installing an OS. It is essentially the equivalent of a Windows start-up floppy disk & a boot manager - without the need for a drive or disk.