Newly built PC, "disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter"

[Karos]

Hello everyone, so I put together my own PC for the first time and I have encountered a serious issue. Firstly here are the specs:

-Cooler Master Extreme Power 650W
-Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 Socket 775 Intel 965 Express
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
-Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA
-BFG GeForce 8800GTS 640mb
-OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz Platinum XTC 2GB(1GB in)
-No floppy drive.

I boot up normally and I am taken to the Award Bios screen. Then the screen goes on to PCI device listings etc, then I get the "disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter" message. Now I've already set CD-ROM as the first boot option etc etc but no matter what I do I always get this message. I assume its normal for Blank/Non-Formatted HDD to display this message, however inserting an OS CD should have resolved this issue judging from what I've read.

So does anyone have any ideas? It may be worth noting the XP pro disc is a back up/burnt copy of my original(now lost) disc but it would boot under my older Computer.

edit: I was considering of buying a vista disc since I want to prepare for the future anyways but I wasn't sure if that would fix the issue.

-I also booted the PC with a Gigabyte CD and it loaded a program(Xpress Recovery2). This at least tells me that my Combo drive can read discs fine.

 

[ForumMaster]

well this atleast tells us that your cd drive isn't reading your burned copy of windows. can you replace the drive temporarly from the other computer to check? if not, buy vista and try that. i usually set all boot options to CD when i need to boot up from a cd. helps sometimes.

 

[lenjack]

Do you get a message saying "press any key to boot from cd"? If you don't, aint nothin gonna happen.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

On a blank drive you dont get a press any key to boot from cd, it does so automagically

 

[btcomm1]

I say possibly jumpers for your optical drive, I don't know how many drives you have but try switching the jumpers around, also try another bootable cd and see if the problem still occurs and possibly try another optical drive all together.

Also try clearing your cmos and see if that clears anything up.

 

[imported_Baloo]

Originally posted by: lenjack
Do you get a message saying "press any key to boot from cd"? If you don't, aint nothin gonna happen.

Ditto

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
On a blank drive you dont get a press any key to boot from cd, it does so automagically

But it will if you put a working Windows XP install disk, which is what lenjack was inquiring about. The OP is trying to install windows XP, he is not trying to boot from an empty hard drive.