HELP! With installing Windows on a new Computer

[FallenOne]

Hey all,
I was wondering if anyone could help me with installing a copy of windows on the new rig that I just built. I didn't know where else to post this, so hopefully someone in here can help me.

I am trying to get WinXP Pro on. The new computer looks like this:
ASARock 939Dual-SATA2 MB
AMD Athlon64 3500+ CPU
WesterDigital 7200 WD800JD 80Gb HDD
Aspire ATX-AS520W PSU
NEC ND-3550A Drive
1Gig Corsair DDR-400 Ram

Everything works great, the BIOS comes up fine and I get an A-OK POST. The BIOS detects all the hardware in the order that I want it, and all the settings look good.

My Problem is that when I put my windows install CD in the drive and boot up, it tells me to "Reboot and select the proper boot device - or insert boot media into the selected device and press any key."
I try to reboot, and select the drive - it brings me back to the same screen with the same message. I try to press a key, gives me the same thing. I looked at my BIOS and checked the settings, checked to see if the disk was fine in my other PC; all were good. No matter what I try, it gives me this screen and won't let me work with any kind of DOS or basic utility so I can tell it to run the CD drive. I can hear the CD drive working when I select it at startup, it just stops after a little while and gives me that message and nothing else.

Overall, this is probably just something stupid that I am missing, so hopefully you guys can help me out.
Thanks a bunch in advance.

 

[boril]

You are sure that you chose to boot from CD-ROM ? I think pressing F2 or F8 during BIOS POST give you menu wher you can choose from where to boot.

 

[FallenOne]

Yeah, F2 gives me the BIOS and F11 gives me the boot menu, and I made sure that I'm booting from the CD drive.

 

[boril]

Did you check cables, NEC master/slave jumper..Is this NEC drive ok ? I think Asrock wants to put DVD/CD-ROM drives at secondary master IDE channel. I have similar problem with some old mobos which didn't recognise DVD-ROM as bootable device, but I think that this isn't such a problem Also try to press up and down rapidly spacebar after BIOS POST...

 

[FallenOne]

I just checked the cables, and they are fine. I have my Drive in primary right now, but I had it in secondary before, and neither way worked. Also tried the spacing, upping, and downing, but that didn't do anything either.
Thanks for trying though...

 

[Peddant]

Have you tried another CD drive ? The stupid suggestions are sometimes the correct ones(but mostly there just stupid).

 

[FallenOne]

I have tried another CD drive, didn't work, and I also tried another CD in the existing drive (the MoBo Driver) and that worked fine, so I am completely stumped as to what the problem is...

 

[vetman667966]

Have u tried copying the entire CDROM into a folder your dektop and running it from there? I do this to ensure that I can read the entire CDROM before I attempt an install. If u can copy it, just click on the SETUP icon in the folder and try that.

 

[mopar man]

....I'm not being a jerk or anything, but do you realize that you just bumped a year (or more) old topic, in which they probably fixed there problem by now?

Don't take this the wrong way, I am pleased to see you trying to help people, but you may wanna start looking at the post dates before you post.



Mopar man

 

[vetman667966]

Faux Pas

You're right, I should have noticed the date.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Yep, that`s a great thread bump lol.

Don`t worry too much, I did exactly the same thing a time or two when I first joined Techspot, until someone pointed it out to me.

Regards Howard