Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter

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I'm trying to rebuild a old computer for my wife's brother, I have a abit AV8 motherboard and a athelon fx64 proccessor, I bought a new WD SE16 Caviar 320gig sata hard drive to put a fresh install of xp pro. The problem I'm having is when I turn the computer on with the xp disk inside I get the message Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter! I unfortunatley cant press enter becasue at that moment my keyboard and mouse go dead. what does that mean? sory I'm a bit of a noob with computers. The mobo has 2 sata ports I cehecked both and they seem fine. I also checked the power connectors to the drive and they are also fine, what am I missing?
 
Sounds like the motherboard cannot find anything to boot from. Make sure that the system is setup to boot from the CD-ROM and that it can see it, there should be a setting somewhere in the BIOS. That should fix it up, not every computer is setup out of the box to boot from the CD
 
I checked that and it was listed as cd rom first, hard drive second and I believe floppy third as order to boot from. I dont know what else to do :(
 
I checked the sata ports and power conectors and it's not even showing I have a hdd, I brought the drive back and second one does the same thing, in the bios the boot order goes cd rom,hard drive and I think floppy after that.does the abit av8 not support a WD se16 caviar sata hdd? Also in bios it only shows IDE master then slave and so on I dont see anything for sata hdd and there is a auto detect thing, I tried that to and it showed nothing :(
 
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