problem installing the OS

[Guest]

These are the specs:
AMD athlon 64 3800
DFI Lan party UT expert
BFG Geforce 7900 GT OC
2* 1GB OCZ RAM
Western Digital Caviar SE Hard Disk Drive 200GB Serial ATA II 7200rpm 8MB
Cache
The system disc is the sevice pack 2 OEM XP pro

I finally got the computer to work after haveing alot of defected hardward
now im on the final stage of completing the computer, installing the
OS(operating system).
I've done the nessary things in BIOS (put the cd drive to boot first before
the hard drive). The DVD/CD-ROM, drive hard and floppy drive are detected in
BIOS(so im pretty sure they work).
At this stage i restarted the computer with the system disc in BUT....i
don't get a messaging saying "press any key to boot from cd." and it either
promts "couldn't find NTLRD" or it keep restarting and eventually goes to a
blank screen.

I have try alot of troubleshoot tips, such as reconnecting the cables and
making sure they're in properly, making sure the cd work by putting it into
another computer (and it does work), etc, but nothing seems to work and all i
get is the same as i said above.

 

[peter]

do you mean that you have an OEM XP Pro CD with SP2 that you purchased
retail ??
or
that you just have the SP2 service pack on the CD for XP
Pro???????????........which is NOT bootable