CDRom causes continuous reboot!

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I have a weird problem. I a new motherboard in my computer and a new cdrw
and HD while I was at it. Everything went fine except when I put the XP cd
in the drive it reboot over and over and if I take the cd out of the drive
it boots fine. Does anyone know why this is happening? New Board, CPU, HD,
and CDRW.

JCW
 
Hi,

Don't press any key when you power on the system.
Or, boot into BIOS and change the boot sequence that the Hdd with the OS
installed to be the 1st boot device, save and exit BIOS setup.
 
There is no OS on the NEW hard drive and I am trying to install XP onto the
fresh hard drive but when I boot to the cdrom with the install disk in it it
reboots continuously, thus not allowing me to install XP. I have tried 2 new
cdrom drives , new cables etc. Any more advice, please...
 
Hi,

How to install XP:

1. Boot into BIOS and change the boot sequence that CD-rom to be the 1st
boot device, floppy drive to be the 2nd and Hdd is the 3rd. Disable the virus
protection in BIOS, if any. Insert the XP CD into the CD-rom drive then save
and exit BIOS setup.
Restart the machine.

2. After POST, watch the screen and when the "press any key to boot from the
CD" appeared at the bottom line of the display, press the space bar
immediately to let it boot from the XP CD.

3. After it booted from XP CD and loaded the setup drivers, press the
"ENTER" key to enter setup.

4. Press the F8 key to accept the licence agreement

5. During the setup process, do not press any key unless you are prompted to
do so.
Follow the on screen instructions to complete the setup. You may need to
press the F6 key to load any 3rd party drivers, e.g. the raid or scsi drivers
by using a floppy disk at this stage. Don't press the the F6 key if it is not
necessary. You can also select format and partition the Hdd in this stage,
just follow the on screen instructions.

6. When "press any key to reboot or the machine will restart in 15 seconds"
appeared, just wait and DON'T press any key and let it auto reboot.

7. Care: when the "press any key to boot from the CD" appeared again, you
MUST NOT press any key and just wait until the setup process auto loaded and
continue the setup process; follow the prompt to compete the setup.

Hope it helps and enjoy the installation of XP.
Pls post back to NG for the outcome.
 
I think MAYBE if you missed the "press any key to boot to cd" prompt you might not get to boot but I seriously doubt the computer just reboots, usually it will stop with a please insert boot device in drive message.I wrote all this to say that if after trying =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXI=?='s "windows instalation for dummy's" (which you have probably pretty close to what you been doing all along), then try the website of your mobo manufacturer for Faqs, support, forums. maybe someone else with this same board has experienced this problem. a possible work around may be to disable booting from cd in the bios, set the floppy to 1st boot device, go to this site

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...DB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F&displaylang=en

and download the boot floppies and try to install using the floppy drive and cd.
hope this helps
 
It is depressing to think that because someone asks for some advice, that
they act as if the person asking is a complete idiot. Not that I don't
appreciate the help that I receive in these NG's, I definitely know when a
computer is in a loop and is rebooting. In my first post I made it clear
that if I remove the cd it would boot fine. With the cd in the drive it
would reboot before it got to the " Press any key to boot to the CD" over
and over again. Again I appreciate the help and advice. Just to close this
issue, although I tried a new PS as well other hardware (RAM,VC, etc) it
turns out that the NEW PS was defective. I installed a second NEW PS and it
booted to the cd normally and all went well. Thanks again...

JCW
 
Sp2?

Is your XP the SP2 version. If it is you might need firmware upgrade for your motherboard.
By the way set all other bios settings to default.
 
It is depressing to think that because someone asks for some advice, that
they act as if the person asking is a complete idiot.
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Well I have to still think that there are plenty of nice folks out there that love to help people solve their computer problems, but I'm not real sure any of them hang out in these forums!!!
anyway I am glad you got it fixed, CD was killing the power supply, I can see that happening, good luck.
 
Dude, I get this all the time. More annoying is when I say something like
"the drive is set as master" and I get a response like "Did you set the
drive as master?". Obviously someone isn't reading, or can't read.


JCW said:
It is depressing to think that because someone asks for some advice, that
they act as if the person asking is a complete idiot. Not that I don't
appreciate the help that I receive in these NG's, I definitely know when a
computer is in a loop and is rebooting. In my first post I made it clear
that if I remove the cd it would boot fine. With the cd in the drive it
would reboot before it got to the " Press any key to boot to the CD" over
and over again. Again I appreciate the help and advice. Just to close this
issue, although I tried a new PS as well other hardware (RAM,VC, etc) it
turns out that the NEW PS was defective. I installed a second NEW PS and
it booted to the cd normally and all went well. Thanks again...

JCW
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