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HELP!!!!! CANT BOOT FROM CD

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rdudejr

Junior Member
Hey everybody!

About 3 weeks ago I started building a computer. I had an ATX case and a CD-ROM drive that is about 6 years old. I have an ECS P4S5A mobo, a Pentium 4 2.26 processor, 1 GB of Memory Max PC2100 DDR-SDRAM( 128Mx64), a Radeon 8500 128 MB vid card, and an 80 MB IDE HD (i think its WD) Every time i boot them machine and try and boot from a bootable Windows 2000 Pro CD it says Boot Failure.... with no disk I go to Novell Firmware, and most of the time when im getting boot failure and hit enter a few times after about 10 times it freezes totally, and it occasionally freezes in the bios too. I really dont want to buy any more hardware, so can someone help me as to how to fix this issue? You guys seem like a great bunch and this forum seems to update pretty regularly. Thanks alot!
 
Is the first boot device in the bios set to "cdrom"? I do not understand the " with no disk I go to Novell Firmware" part. It is also possible that a 6yr old psu was not very potent to begin with, and has deteriorated to the point where it is not suitable for your hardware. It is also possible to create a set of 4 floppys from the w2k cd that you can boot from.
 
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