Anybody can help?

[BargainHunter]

My situation:

I tried to read some data from a scratched CD but the system hang, so I just power off and on my system, but my system couldn't boot up and giving the error message like "system halted", I am not able to even start in the safe mode. Then I formatted my HDD and reinstall WinME, it's not working too and just keep restarting after passing the WinME logo. Anyone can help?

ASUS CUV4X
P3-733MHZ
128MB Kingston PC100
30g IBM Deskstar 75GXP
Sound Blaster 512

 

[MCS]

Tricky one indeed from the sounds of it. Have you checked the power and cable connections to the back of your CD-ROM and into the motherboard?