bootable cd does not boot in new system

[Guest]

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I have finally got all my bits together so that I can start building a
new computer. After installing the hardware I find that I am unable to
boot from XP cd.
Have set the cd rom to be the the 1st boot drive but all I get is the
'booting from cd' message followed by a blank screen with flashing
cursor in the top left hand corner.
I have an Abit IS7 board with two hard drives on IDE1 and a Pioneer
107 DVD rewriter(from which I am trying to boot) as master on IDE2.
I know that the XP cd is ok as my old computer can boot from it with
no troubles so could the problem be that you cannot boot from a
secondary drive or maybe I have to do something to the dvd rewriter to
make it bootable?
and I thought I knew how to install XP!

 

[Dave]

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Are the jumpers on you hard drives set correctly?

"Rob Beattie" <rob@/remove/ghosh.co.uk> wrote in message
news:40c23e79.272085@text.news.ntlworld.com...
> I have finally got all my bits together so that I can start building a
> new computer. After installing the hardware I find that I am unable to
> boot from XP cd.
> Have set the cd rom to be the the 1st boot drive but all I get is the
> 'booting from cd' message followed by a blank screen with flashing
> cursor in the top left hand corner.
> I have an Abit IS7 board with two hard drives on IDE1 and a Pioneer
> 107 DVD rewriter(from which I am trying to boot) as master on IDE2.
> I know that the XP cd is ok as my old computer can boot from it with
> no troubles so could the problem be that you cannot boot from a
> secondary drive or maybe I have to do something to the dvd rewriter to
> make it bootable?
> and I thought I knew how to install XP!

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt (More info?)

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:04:32 -0700, "Dave"
<brewingNOisSPAMloving@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Are the jumpers on you hard drives set correctly?
>
>"Rob Beattie" <rob@/remove/ghosh.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:40c23e79.272085@text.news.ntlworld.com...
>> I have finally got all my bits together so that I can start building a
>> new computer. After installing the hardware I find that I am unable to
>> boot from XP cd.
>> Have set the cd rom to be the the 1st boot drive but all I get is the
>> 'booting from cd' message followed by a blank screen with flashing
>> cursor in the top left hand corner.
>> I have an Abit IS7 board with two hard drives on IDE1 and a Pioneer
>> 107 DVD rewriter(from which I am trying to boot) as master on IDE2.
>> I know that the XP cd is ok as my old computer can boot from it with
>> no troubles so could the problem be that you cannot boot from a
>> secondary drive or maybe I have to do something to the dvd rewriter to
>> make it bootable?
>> and I thought I knew how to install XP!
>

I used a cdrw drive from my old system and everything worked ok. The
problem was that the dvd-rw drive does not work :-(.
Thanks for replying.