Shuttle SK43G Will not boot from CD ROM

[goofyhal]

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 correctly identified both the HD & Optical drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Uncle Bob]

Is your CD an original XP disc or a copy? Do you know for sure that the CD is not damaged/faulty and is bootable?

What happens when you try to boot from CD, what message is displayed.

The boot order should have CD-ROM in First or Second place before the HD (although if the HD is not yet formatted/bootable it shouldn't matter as long as it is in the list of bootable devices).

If you have a floppy drive, try making / obtaining a Windows98 startup disc - this will at least allow you to test basic functionality of your setup

 

[goofyhal]

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

The win98 boot disk was next on my list but I don't have a floppy on this system so I was trying to find another answer first. Squeezing a floppy into the Shuttle just to run a test is a pain, but it may have to be.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Is the optical drive on its own ide channel and set to master (default setting is often slave)?

 

[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 and install Win XP without any further delay.

 

[jackschmittusa]

When you pulled the jumper off of the hard drive, you made it the single drive on the channel, which is what it should be. The master setting on a WD means there is a slave.