XP CD will not boot

[jayrock]

Im not sure if im in the correct forum for this but here goes.

Im attempting to install XP PRO onto a brand new computer I have a Giga-byte K8N51GMF-9 Mobo, NEC 3550 DVDRW, 80GB Hitachi HDD. When I boot the computer up with the XP CD in the DVD drive, i get to the boot from CD prompt. Then it tries to load, I hear the DVD wind up and a few seconds later it says DISK ERROR INSERT SYSTEM DISK. Ive tried two different Drives and I get the same result. Could it be a bad disk? or is my configuration wrong. I have the DVD on IDE 1 as CSE and the HDD is SATA. In BIOS it recognizes both drives.

Any clues? Wrong Forum? Thanks for any help!

[djnes]

First thing, get rid of Cable Select (It's latin for "I'm too friggin' lazy to pick master or slave" :) ). It's not needed in today's computers, and there's really no excuse or reason not to make the drive a master or slave, based on your configuration. My guess is, once you make it the master, it will boot from the CD. If not, check the cables, and also think about swapping the drive out with another optical drive to eliminate that as a cause.

[jayrock]

Tried a few things with now success:

Put DVDRW on IDE2 as Master still get:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Put DVDRW on IDE1 as Master still get error
Ive already tried a different optical drive and i still get the same error

This is really puzzling me because ive never had an issue installing XP on a new system...
Could there be a conflict with the SATA drive? Or something motherboard related? Should I get a Floppy and try to do an install from a DOS prompt?

[hudini]

Do the Roms show up in the bios??

[jayrock]

Diagnosis: Faulty PATA Cable...

Thanks for the help