Expert: Roy Bonner - 11/7/2006

Question
Gigabyte 6-Quad Edition motherboard ( GA-965P-DQ6 )
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor ( 2.4 GHz )
2 Gigabytes of G.Skill DDR2 Ram ( 2 sticks of 1 Gig )
a LITEON 16x DVD/CD+-RW Dual Layer Drive
2 e_GeForce 7900GS PCI express video cards
and a Western Digital Sata (3.0 GB/s) Hard drive. it's pin is WD2500KS-00MJB0

If you need any other specs. just let me know.
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Sadly, when we put in a Windows XP CD, it doesn't do anything at all, it stops when it says : Boot from CD-ROM
It says:
"Boot from CD-ROM:
_"
( the _ blinks )
It then stays like that for however long we leave the computer on, it does nothing else.

Any other tips?
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OK Chris, send me a specification of the machine, and I'll see what I can do.

Roy

Answer
Hi Chris,
Well it's fairly obvious why you couldn't get '98 to load! You might just as well have tried picking up a steam train by the smoke coming out of the locomotive's smoke stack. As for the failure of XP, did the drive light come on and stay on, come on then go off, or just not come on at all? Not that it matters too much, you either have a faulty XP disk, a faulty drive, or there is a fault with the system which is causing the drive not to function properly.
I am assuming that it is a proper XP installation disk you have, not a restore disk from anther system. Can you test the disk in another system to see if it will boot then? If it does, you have a hardware fault in the new system, if not you have a faulty disk. Either way I assume a warranty claim would be the best answer.

Regards

Roy