BleepingComputer.com: Boot Cd Will Not Work

HI

I am working on my aunts computer she was haveing some problems with it so I was going to reinstall windows. The computer is a compaq presario its kind of old it has a pentium 3 and windows 98. Since its a compaq all I have is a recovery CD. I have tried to boot from the cd but all I get is a flashing cursor. I have tried the cd in my laptop and it boots up fine. So I tried my Windows ME cd and it will not boot from that. I made a ME boot floppy and I can get the computer to boot from that. But I cant get the recovery CD to run. there are two files on the CD they are BOOTCAT.BIN and BOOTSECT.BIN. Is there a way to get the cd to run from DOS or is there a way I can get the Recovery CD to work.
thanks

You probably need to set the boot order in your bios to boot from the cd.

Hey thanks but the boot order is CD-rom First Floppy Second and Hard drive third