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?
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disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter
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