PLEASE help me!1 i am so lost and confused.... so fustrated

[juiceman666]

ok im building a computer, asus p4p800-e deluxe motherboard, 1024mb
ram, p4 3.2g, 256mb nvidea video card, when i turn on my pc, i get
this message "reboot and select boot device or insert boot media in
selected boot device and press any key"
ive tried everything, everyhthing id hooked up right same goes or all
the jumpers, and when i try botting form a cd it wont work
i wanna install windows xp, what do i do to get me out of this
agonizing stage, adn get my computer up and going?? please help me
out,.. im so confused

 

[Paul]

ok im building a computer, asus p4p800-e deluxe motherboard, 1024mb
ram, p4 3.2g, 256mb nvidea video card, when i turn on my pc, i get
this message "reboot and select boot device or insert boot media in
selected boot device and press any key"
ive tried everything, everyhthing id hooked up right same goes or all
the jumpers, and when i try botting form a cd it wont work
i wanna install windows xp, what do i do to get me out of this
agonizing stage, adn get my computer up and going?? please help me
out,.. im so confused

Have you set up the boot order in the BIOS ?

Paul

 

[RBM]

I don't know what you're using for a hard drive(s) or what controller you
have it attached to, but assuming it is a native controller and doesn't need
drivers to see the hard drive: Go into the bios, under boot and set your CD
to be first boot, then try rebooting with the operating system disk

 

[John Tindle]

Also - if you have a very old XP CD (pre SP1) you could not install the OS
by booting from the CD. ,, you needed the set of setup floppies. But I
suspect you only need to select the correct boot order (CD #1) in the BIOS
and save the change by pressing F10!

JT

 

[Michael W. Ryder]

Also - if you have a very old XP CD (pre SP1) you could not install the OS
by booting from the CD. ,, you needed the set of setup floppies.

Are you sure about this? My XP disk is from the pre SP1 era and I never
had any problems booting from it.


But I

 

[John Tindle]

I should have clarified that.
Windows XP Original Release was difficult to copy and most backup copies did
not boot from the CD. Original CD's could boot from the CD of course.
If you had one of those older copies - then you were out of luck without the
setup floppies.


JT.

 

[timmy]

how many hard drives are connected, sata and / or ide...?
also:
You must select the boot device priority in the bios, such as
"cdrom-1st, hdd0-2nd...sata will take priority over ide so that also
has to be set accordingly...

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On 6 Mar 2005 16:17:09 -0500,

 

[juiceman666]

ok i have set 1st boot from cdrom, and i still get the message, and i
have windows xp sp2 cd.. hmm and my drives are set up with ide cables

 

[b]

ok i have set 1st boot from cdrom, and i still get the message, and i
have windows xp sp2 cd.. hmm and my drives are set up with ide cables

Does the PC try to boot from the CD? Maybe your CD drive won't boot from a
CD - it does happen sometimes.

 

[juiceman666]

should i try using boot disk or the whole 6 disk windows setup, ? but
when my cd drive was in my other computer i would load windows
through dos easy when i would installl it, like it would load from
teh cd without a problem... hmm, maybe ill just take this thing
somewhere and say fix it, lol? im lost

 

[John Tindle]

Have you checked the jumper on the CDROM. Should be Master or Slave. IF CS
then change it to Master.
Check cables are tight and in the correct orientation (red/black stripe
nearest the power plug).
Get hold of another CDROM and then try again.
Is WINXP a (bad) copy?
Must be one of the above........

JT

 

[b]

should i try using boot disk or the whole 6 disk windows setup, ? but
when my cd drive was in my other computer i would load windows
through dos easy when i would installl it, like it would load from
teh cd without a problem... hmm, maybe ill just take this thing
somewhere and say fix it, lol? im lost

Well if the same disk worked in the same drive it seems unlikely to be the
CD.
Is the CD set to master?
Check all of the basic connections again - that's where lots of people fall
down.

 

[juiceman666]

ok my cd drives are set to master, and if tried using a different xp
cd, same deal, same message....? blah

 

[juiceman666]

ok my cd drives are set to master, and ive tried using a different xp
cd, same deal, same message....? blah

 

[Axl Myk]

I smell a load of trouble about to happen..
:>)

I don't know what you're using for a hard drive(s) or what controller you
have it attached to, but assuming it is a native controller and doesn't need
drivers to see the hard drive: Go into the bios, under boot and set your CD
to be first boot, then try rebooting with the operating system disk

 

[Ed]

On 7 Mar 2005 08:17:30 -0500,

should i try using boot disk or the whole 6 disk windows setup, ? but
when my cd drive was in my other computer i would load windows
through dos easy when i would installl it, like it would load from
teh cd without a problem... hmm, maybe ill just take this thing
somewhere and say fix it, lol? im lost

If you only have one CD-ROM drive then connect it to the end of the IDE
cable (not middle) and set the drive as Master, if using two CD-rom
drives set one as Slave and connect it to the middle IDE connector.

WinXP is a bootable CD... did you ever set the boot order in the BIOS so
CD-ROM is first? Some boards have a boot menu that pops-up when a
certain key os pressed so you can select what drive to boot from so you
don't have to mess with the your BIOS settings.

Ed

 

[peterk]

Do you at least get the line at the bottom of the screen that says" push any
key to boot from CD" ?????
peterk