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.
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.