Disk Boot Failure

[Ian Dayon]

I decided to use my old motherboard that was just sitting around.

-plugged the 24 pin
-the front panel wires
-hhd (with windows 8 64 bit already)
-my intel processor
-the 4 pin (2 yellow 2 black)
-stock fan
-ps2 wires (kb and mouse)
-vga cable

Everything worked correctly as it should be, it passed in BIOS. then i got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".
I pressed enter, message still appears.

then what i did first was, I placed a cd-rom component (i plugged it off properly before doing this)
then placed the cd in the rom. Message still appears.

Then second. i took out the HDD this time (yes, i plugged it off properly)
so what remains on the boot section was the cd-rom, STILL MESSAGE APPEARS! -.-

help!

Specs:
(yes its old)

GIGABYTE GA-8vm800m-775
i honestly dont know the processor because i cant access to the desktop
1gig DDR1 Kingston RAM


BTW, I AM USING THOSE COMMON SATA CABLES (if that makes a difference ).

 

[kenrivers]

How old is the motherboard and what is the brand and model? Did you check to see if the motherboard is compatible with Windows 8? As far as the error message goes you will get that if when you added the CD-ROM drive and you had no bootable media in the drive (such as a Windows or Ubuntu disk). When you removed the HDD did you have bootable media in the CD-ROM drive? With the HDD out did you change the boot order and make the CD-ROM first in the list and have bootable media in the drive? Was the HDD first in boot priority in the BIOS when you had it installed?

 

[Ian Dayon]

How old is the motherboard and what is the brand and model? Did you check to see if the motherboard is compatible with Windows 8? As far as the error message goes you will get that if when you added the CD-ROM drive and you had no bootable media in the drive (such as a Windows or Ubuntu disk). When you removed the HDD did you have bootable media in the CD-ROM drive? With the HDD out did you change the boot order and make the CD-ROM first in the list and have bootable media in the drive? Was the HDD first in boot priority in the BIOS when you had it installed?

GIGABYTE GA-8vm800m-775 thats the model (as stated on specs).

 

[kenrivers]

I see you did post the motherboard model. I overlooked that. After looking at the GIGABYTE site for specs on that motherboard (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1931#ov) I see that you have a Pentium 4 CPU. I looked for motherboard drivers and did not see any for Windows 7 or 8. I also noticed that there hasn't been a BIOS update since 2006. Not sure any of that helps but it could be the board is just too old to run Windows 8. You might find this (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010064/upgrading-an-impossibly-old-system-to-windows-8.html) to be an interesting read.