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    Need help bad

     
    everytime that i try to install windows on my computer( i'm trying to install windows XP pro) it goes through and see my hardware, but it keeps saying Boot From CD:
    DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. i dont know what to do. i've got a biostar NF520-A2 mother board, and i have a nVidia e-GeForce 7600Gs graphics card, and i have an amd 4200 2.2g dual core processorand i had 2 1gb sticks of A-DATA 240 pin, ddr2 800 (pc6400) ram and i just bought two 1gb sticks of kingston pc2-5300 ddr2 ram. i also have an HP dvd burner with lightscribe, and an LG dvd burner also with lightscribe, i have them set up as the HP being the master and t he other one being the slave. i've tried switching the dvd drives around but that doesn't seem to work, i've tried swapping out the cables and i've tried putting the ram in different spots but none seem to work.

    i'm tired of this computer i've had it since june and i got tired of it then i don't know what to do i've spent 800$ on the computer before it started screwing up and that is now up to 1200 or 1300$ i don't want to have to pay somebody like 80$ an hour or what ever the going rate is to fix it could you guys or girls please help me with my problem

    ~Zack~

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    Try using just 1 stick of ram at a time, go through all of them and see if you get the error with each one.
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    I think it's your boot order and not the cdroms.

    It's trying to go to your harddrive, if nothing is installed on the drive then see this.

    Is your harddrive on the ide ribbon cable? On sata? If sata must load the sata drivers at the F6 prompt.

    Try setting the boot order in BIOS,

    first boot:cdrom
    second boot: cdrom
    third boot:Harddrive 0 (or sata if is sata drive)
    fourth boot: whatever you desire

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    ok i will try that and get back with you later on that thank you

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