New computer boot up problem - Help!

[Chowder Head]

Hey guys, I recently built my computer yesterday and am having a problem.

As of the moment, if I start it up, it gives me an option for the BIOS or the POST screen. I set-up everything in the BIOS correctly and saved and continued. Then I was waiting for the computer to detech the CD of Windows XP I have loaded into the CD tray but nothing happens. It just shows a black screen with a flashing underscore character at the top left of the screen. Any ideas?

Here are my specs:
Antec P180
Opteron 165 with Sycthe Ninja heatsink
MSI Diamond Plus
2x1GB of DDR500 G.skill
eVGA 7800GT
NEC-3550A DVD Drive
Seasonic S-12 600 PSU
WD Raptor 74GB SATA (16mb of cache, primary drive)
Seagate 300GB SATA (storage)

If it helps, I have a Saitek Eclipse taking up a USB port so I could go through the BIOS, I even set the default setting on the BIOS and seeing if that would do anything, but it didn't. I also cleared the CMOS but again, nothing.

Any ideas guys? I would greatly appreciate ANY assistance you guys can give me. I'm totally lost.

Thanks again!

 

[WipeoutFTW]

The same thing happened to me. I tried so many BIOS settings and nothing worked. I took my PC apart, dusted everything off, and put it back together. Maybe there could be a loose wire somewhere. Is your BIOS detecting all your devices?

 

[Chowder Head]

The same thing happened to me. I tried so many BIOS settings and nothing worked. I took my PC apart, dusted everything off, and put it back together. Maybe there could be a loose wire somewhere. Is your BIOS detecting all your devices?

All devices are detected. Proc, hard drives, burner, RAM, etc. Everything I put on is deteched. I even have this D-bracket device that comes with the Diamond Plus that have a series of lights to indicate any problems, such as RAM failure, and even that is telling me everything is in check.

But I'll peer through the case and see if I can see a loose wire or something.

Any more help from anyone would REALLY help me out. Thank you again.

 

[Chowder Head]

Got it running! I guess I had an option for boot from other device turned on. So I turned that off and what do you know, it worked. Installed Xp without a hiccup.

I orginally thought it might of been the boot sector protections fault for thinking the operating system was a virsus so it wouldn't let me install but I guess not. It even had that prompt "Virsus found! Continue Y/N"

Oh well! It's fixed, and I'm exhausted from downloading all of these damn drivers.

Thanks again [H]!