I'm getting "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

I just build my pc and I was very exciting until I got this message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Before this message it shows on the header JMICRON and on the bottom "detecting drives:no drives" then blink once, "detecting drives: no drive" again Then it goes "boot from CDISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Here is what I tried so far,
1. I set the priority booting device as the cd rom - hard drive
2. I changed the replugged and changed the SATA cable to new one.
3. I unplugged the hdd drives and tried booting with only cd rom drive.

Is there a possibility that the MOBO is damaged or somehow doomed?
I also checked the CMOS features and it show all the drives in it( 2 hard drives and one CD drive).
Please give me some help ..

What mobo do you have ? I'm going to guess and say it's an Asus with a Nvidea chipset...but I could be wrong.

Do you have any floppy disks inserted? I know that almost nobody has them any more but a non-bootable floppy is often a cause of this.

Good suggestions by everyone, but I have a question.

The hard drive that you are using is it new or did you pull from another machine? Disk Boot Failure are sometimes representative of a failing hard drive. That fact that the Bios sees it, but doesn't boot would be a good sign (other than checking the cables which it seems you have done).

Did you set the drives up in a Raid Array, this could be adding to the problem, but less likely.

Let us know what happens.

i got an asus with nvidia chips set!!!!!!! got same error, bios doeasnt read hdd, and if i put vista dvd, it goes to the loading screen and then it crashes there with a blue screen.

helppp!!!1

ok, this is the full story:
I wake up, turn the pc on, this error shows up. I look up in forums and see that people say i coul have the cables loose. I check, i try puting it in all sata ports, with differetn cables, nothing.
I changed the bios to boot from the hdd first then cd-rom.
The i put the vista dvd and the windows loggin screen crashes after been stuck fo a while.
I put my motherboard cd, and try to use the "fdisk /mbr" command and it says it cant change the boot tables.
The i c people saying it could be a virus, but i got no idea how to scan for one if i cant even acces windows.
If i check in the start screen, i see the computer doesnt detect the HDD.
I go into the partitions section, and i c a partition of the hdd but only of 24Mb instead of my 500Gb.
pls help, this is so suddenn!!!!!

Make sure you put the disk in right side up. I continually got this error while using my PC. It was dark in the room, and I checked and I put the disk in data side up.

Hiya all,

Just to let you know that i managed to get past this issue.

For any of you in the same situation as i was in, i did 2 things.

1. My motherboard with default settings for increasing performance by using MIT, some overclocking tool. The CPU performance was set to Turbo, so i put this back to Standard.

2. The other thing i did was replace the DVD drive in my computer. I do not know if this was the thing causing the issue, but my computer is now in the process of installing my new Windows 7.

I hope that this can be of use to anyone in need.

Cheers
Steph