I cant boot from cd

[chupamiel]

I jst built this comp and the bios sees the 2 hd and the 2 cd's i placed the boot from cd first option, i tried using one cd as master then the other, i booted from the floppies but one file didn't load and the system was unstable(the cd's worked but all of a sudden they wouldn't read the cd 'said the cd was empty, 0 bytes' i put another cd and wouldn't see it. I rebooted and it would see it sometimes the first time and then it couldn't read the disc anymore). I formatted and started again but still doesn't read the xp cd so i cannot load up XP.

PC Chips T 12 mobo
Pentium 4 ee prescott
corsair ddr 400 ram
Rhyan power supply
hi-val cd
lite-on cd
Windows XP Pro SP2 (legal)

PLEASE HELP

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Make sure you have your jumpers correctly set. But first, disconnect everything but the harddrive you want to install XP on (connect to IDE1) and a CD-ROM drive (connect to IDE2) (make sure both are set to master, and CD is set to first boot drive) and see if you get anywhere.