Not sure what you have on CD. Most times that is the programming pendant software. If you have system software that would go on a CF. That CF could go into the programming pendant. You would then boot up telling the controller to do software with INTERLOCK+ 8+ SELECT. You would then tell it to do the software.
I have run into the NCP board CF card being bad. You can only read and write so many times and a up to 15 year old controller it might be bad. The NCP board could be bad. Both green lights should be on with power on. If one is on and one is off the software hasn't passed diagnostics far enough. There is information on the lights but if only one is on it is so deep in the firmware that you can't troubleshoot anything.
Once you successful get the controller to boot up you will have a few alarms since the robot is not connected. Turn the rotary switch on the NIF to 6 with power off. This will tell the controller to ignore the missing robot.