Recent content by goofyhal

This issue is resolved. For those who are interested. I have a single HD & Optical drive, each on their own IDE channel. The jumper on both was set to master. Apparently this created a conflict. By removing both jumpers completely the system booted normally. I was able to format the drive...

Yes it is a brand new legal Win XP CD. I also tried it with a known good CD with the same result. POST works fine. The BIOS lists the drives. A message displays "Booting from disk" That's it nothing more happens after that. Boot order is CDROM first. Everything else is disabled...

Shuttle SK43G AMD Sempron 2600 Corsair DDRAM 512MB PC-3200 Aopen Combo Drive 5232 Western Digital WD800 80Gig HD I?m doing the initial power-up of this new unit. In spite of my best effort, The system will NOT boot from the Win XP CD. The BIOS appears to be set correctly. It has...