Ok, so i guess i got the wiring right. I push the power button, the computer comes on. Everything goes fine until i get to
Verifying DMI Pool Data.........
Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter.
I have been messing with it all day and nothing is working.
I changed the boot order because it was set to Floppy/Hard drive/SATA CD Rom
I have about a 6 year old IDE dvd drive that i'm using. When i changed the boot order i saw it listed specifically by name and model number so i chose it first followed by my hard drive.
I tried again and nothing worked. I turned the computer off and then later turned it back on to see the error message. It then started loading things for about 10 minutes. Then it spit out an error message (didn't write it down). It said press a key to continue. Pressing a key did nothing so i turned it off. Tried again and now its back to Disk Boot Failure.
Theres a couple of things i was thinking of.
The windows xp boot cd is kind of old and worn a little. Maybe it can't read it?
The drive is around 6 years old and IDE. I saw on a review for the motherboard that the motherboard has poor IDE support and a cheap SATA drive fixes the problem. But i also saw in reviews that SATA drives have problems installing but IDE drives worked fine. Don't know what to do about that...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Motherboard: Abit IP35 Pro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=10
DVD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106193
Saaaaaave meeeeeee
Verifying DMI Pool Data.........
Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter.
I have been messing with it all day and nothing is working.
I changed the boot order because it was set to Floppy/Hard drive/SATA CD Rom
I have about a 6 year old IDE dvd drive that i'm using. When i changed the boot order i saw it listed specifically by name and model number so i chose it first followed by my hard drive.
I tried again and nothing worked. I turned the computer off and then later turned it back on to see the error message. It then started loading things for about 10 minutes. Then it spit out an error message (didn't write it down). It said press a key to continue. Pressing a key did nothing so i turned it off. Tried again and now its back to Disk Boot Failure.
Theres a couple of things i was thinking of.
The windows xp boot cd is kind of old and worn a little. Maybe it can't read it?
The drive is around 6 years old and IDE. I saw on a review for the motherboard that the motherboard has poor IDE support and a cheap SATA drive fixes the problem. But i also saw in reviews that SATA drives have problems installing but IDE drives worked fine. Don't know what to do about that...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Motherboard: Abit IP35 Pro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=10
DVD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106193
Saaaaaave meeeeeee