xp install mayhem

[Shalantas]

im selling my old build to somebody all i wanted to do was a fresh install of windows. sounds simple right? i had 2 hard drives in there. i place the windows xp service pack 1 cd into the cd tray. go into bios and set boot order for dvd drive first. save changes i go through the prompts and it begins to install windows, then gets to a part that says selecting list of files for install. it sat there for 2 hours then my computer shut down.... i was a little confused so i boot it back up, before i could even get to any boot screens it just gave me an error saying a particular file was missing and needed to be installed, i didnt have time to write it down because the screen went black. now when i boot the computer i get a blank screen i tried removing my slave hdd and just leaving my master then tried just the slave drive but.....nothing. Any ideas as to what can be done?

 

[BMWlover]

Are these Sata drives we are dealing with? Double check the connections, and the boot order, as I am sure you've done, it should not have a problem booting from a cd. Is this a home built PC or Pre-built? If its prebuilt I would just run the recovery partition, usually by pushing "r" or "F10" at boot. Does the computer give any POST errors at start-up?(beeps)

 

[Shalantas]

its ide, ive triple checked all the connections and as far as bios or anything like post errors i dont get that far when i press power the fans run and nothing at all loads up the power light on my monitor blinks as if the computer isnt even on this computer is self built.