ensure your DIP switches are set correctly on the DVD drive and the cable is correctly installed.

 

DVD drive was working perfectly before and works normally for playing games; just won't boot my XP disc at startup.

 

What are DIP switches? I have never heard of this term before.

 

Tedster means the Master/Slave switches - they are DIP switches.

Is the dvd connected to the secondary IDE? Is it on the middle connector?

 

Oh okay, now that term I do know.

Learn something new everyday, thanks.

 

Testing

just testing how it works.

 

its quick and amazing...

 

Yes the first is used for the hard drives

 

Double check: http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html


edit: since you just installed a 'new' mobo, did you install the chipset drivers and have you played a cd interfaced game with that new mobo ?

 

Thank you for your help; but i managed to sort things out.
In the bios my keyboard worked perfectly, so i did not suspect that could be the problem, but it was. In the bios was a section that stopped usb devices being used in dos; i changed it so that usb could be used in dos and bingo! It worked first time.

Thanks again for your help.:grinthumb

 

Sounds funny that your original post was about your cd and your solution was a bios fix for your keyboard!!!

However,...............

 

I'll explain.
Everytime i was trying to boot onto the XP disc, i was tapping the keyboard as asked but nothing was happening apart from continuing into XP(the old motherboard/ cpu install). Due to the keyboard working in the bios, i put it down to the dvdrom not wanting to boot the disc. This idea was furthered by Foxconn themselves saying that i had not set up the bios to read the DVDROM correctly, even though i could not find where i was going wrong. After no resolving of the problem, i came to Techspot to see if anyone had any ideas. It wasn't until i looked in every nook and cranny in the bios, as i was running out of ideas; that i found that the usb devices had been turned off in dos (something i'd never seen before) so i turned it to on and the rest is history so to speak.

 

When you said 'DVD drive was working perfectly before and works normally for playing games; just won't boot my XP disc at startup." I thought, as maybe others did, that you had already installed the OS and played games and were now RE-installing (for whatever reason).

This is why good description is important.

Anyway, glad you have ot sorted out.