Cant get my CD Rom to boot

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Bernard

I have just replaced my dead motherboard with a Albatron KM400 Pro

I have an AMD 2000+ CPU, 2 sticks of DDR 256Mb Ram a CD ROM 40GB HDD GF
MX4000 128MB Graphics

When I try to boot up it wont start XP, (I assume this is because of major
hardware changes),
BUT I can not get the machine to Boot from my CD Rom, I changed the settings
in the BIOS even hit escape during POST but no affect

I cant reinstall XP if I cant boot from CD

HELP


Regards

Bernard
 
Real XP CD not an OEM but Full Version
I have tried other bootable CDs and they don't work either
 
Bernard said:
Real XP CD not an OEM but Full Version
I have tried other bootable CDs and they don't work either
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Must be your CD-ROM then.... how old it is?
 
I have tried known good parts from another computer.
CD rom
HDD
Video,
Memory

The only thing I cant swap is the MB and CPU
 
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I have tried known good parts from another computer.
CD rom
HDD
Video,
Memory

The only thing I cant swap is the MB and CPU
 
Anytime I do anything as major as a motherboard change I back up any
important data then do a "CLEAN" installation of the operating system.

Go into the BIOS and check to see if the hard drive has been
recognized correctly.

Can you change the BIOS to boot from the floppy drive first ? If so
then you could always use a Windows98 boot disk, run FDISK and FORMAT.
( obviously you will lose ALL YOUR DATA )

If you go that path then after running FDISK and FORMAT try setting
the CD Rom as the First Boot Device and reboot.
( with Windows XP in the CD rom )

Post back and let us know of your progress. Good Luck!

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I have just replaced my dead motherboard with a Albatron KM400 Pro

I have an AMD 2000+ CPU, 2 sticks of DDR 256Mb Ram a CD ROM 40GB HDD GF
MX4000 128MB Graphics

When I try to boot up it wont start XP, (I assume this is because of major
hardware changes),
BUT I can not get the machine to Boot from my CD Rom, I changed the settings
in the BIOS even hit escape during POST but no affect

I cant reinstall XP if I cant boot from CD
Click to expand...
Does the CD ROM drive show up as a listed IDE device when your computer
boots up? Also check in your BIOS to ensure that IDE detection for your
CD-ROM (depending upon which IDE port it is set up for) is set to AUTO.
 
I have tried another stick of RAM but don't have a spare CPU to try.

Can the CPU being frazzled cause this kind of problem

I pinched a HDD out of a computer running ME but it will only start-up in
safe mode and it still wont boot from the CD Rom

Cheers

Bernard
 
Yes and I have thanks though


Peter said:
Does the CD ROM drive show up as a listed IDE device when your computer
boots up? Also check in your BIOS to ensure that IDE detection for your
CD-ROM (depending upon which IDE port it is set up for) is set to AUTO.
Click to expand...
 
Bernard said:
I have tried another stick of RAM but don't have a spare CPU to try.

Can the CPU being frazzled cause this kind of problem
Click to expand...

My first inclination is to say absolutely not, but then I suppose there's
always that residual 1 in a billion chance that applies to just about anything.

I pinched a HDD out of a computer running ME but it will only start-up in
safe mode and it still wont boot from the CD Rom
Click to expand...

That would be expected. The ME installation isn't right for the motherboard
either and the O.S. has nothing to do with whether the BIOS will boot from
the CD.

I presume you've double checked the CD drive jumpers, that it's properly
set to boot from the CD Drive in BIOS (make it the fist boot device), and
you've tried another IDE cable.

However, some motherboards won't find the CD Drive if it's set to slave
with no master (on the second IDE channel) and some will find it but not
boot from it that way. It's something to try.

Of course, it's also possible the CD Drive is simply defective.
 
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