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Are you sure it’s booting from the CD? If not, enter Setup (as it’s first starting to boot) to configure the boot devices so that it will boot from the CD-ROM drive before the hard drive(s).

Many PCs, even when they detect a bootable CD, will tell you to press any key to boot from the CD. Then, if you don’t press a key within n seconds, it will skip the CD and go to the next device on the list (usually the hard drive).

At any rate, if it’s doing the same thing it did when booting from the HD, it’s probably still booting from the HD.

Haven't changed the setup to put CD booting before hard drive, but have pressed F12 when appropriate to boot from CD/DVD. It just goes to a black screen with a small, white line in the upper left, and then to another black screen with a white progress bar (which it normally did), and then (if F8 isn't pressed to select: safe mode; device repair mode; debug mode; last good configuration) to the screen with a picture and a progress bar at the bottom. The blue progress bar goes about halfway and then stops.

So, as for your question, definitely trying to boot from CD, and that is definitely being selected, but it's more a question of whether the stuff on the CDs are bootable. The one in your link seems to be (it is running a memory diagnostic currently--there are so many options and unfamiliar with computers, so since it had 'Windows' and 'memory' (which seems as though it is a big thing which could cause a blue screen) the Windows memory diagnostic was selected).