Help Problems Installing windows

[lscrivner]

I having problems installing windows.

Boot Disk Priority is set to CDROM First then HardDisk

I get the Press any key to Boot CD
Then it says it is checking system configuration after that screen goes black and nothing happens.

I have an ASUS P5ND2-SLI Motherboard
P4 proc not sure what the clock speed is but i think i 2.8GHZ
2 gig ram unknown brand
320 gig western digita IDE hard drive
Unknown brand DVD-ROM

Initially had Fedora Installed on hard drive but jacked up the setup so going back to XP Home for awhile.

If anybody could help out that would be great. Need to get this finished before the wife gets home.

 

[lscrivner]

Also apologize for spelling but using an old laptop and for some reason keyboard does not work well.

 

[lscrivner]

Could it be an issue with Ram?

 

[g-paw]

When you say "nothing happens", are you getting a message? Have you tried clicking on the key that let's you choose which drive to boot from, e.g., on my ASUS AM2 mobos it's F8, a real pain when you're trying into Safe Mode. When you first start your computer it should tell you which key. A friends older Dell requires you hit an F key, I think it's F12 but not sure, in order to boot from the Windows CD. For some reason resetting the boot order in the BIOS doesn't always work.