Problem after putting together my own computer.?

Question

After building my own computer on start up I get the message "Isolinux 1.68 0x3c7f7718 Isolinux failed to get sector size assuming 0800". I have XP Pro I want to install but it doesn't seem to be able to see it. It keeps trying to boot from the hard drive which of course has nothing on it. Going into cmos shows that it recognizes everything correctly, hard drive, floppy drive, cd drive, memory, processor ect. but it won't boot from the XP disk which is in the CD drive.

Answer 1

Your hard drive appears to contain remnants of a Linux installation (unsuccessful perhaps).
After powering ON, just press Del or F2 to open BIOS menu. Look for Advanced BIOS Features. On the First boot device, select CD drive and on the second boot device, choose HDD. Save and exit. When you get the prompt on screen to press any key to boot from CD just press any key on the keyboard.

Answer 2

Usually latest pentium motherboard has the option to choose to boot first from cd or from the hard drive.When you restart your computer and its showing memory size etc. try to press the key f2 or f4 or f8 then find the options to select start boot from the cd or hard drive.

Answer 3

Change the boot order in your bios to the cd drive. This should fix the problem.

Answer 4

Hey there...

Sounds like you need to go into BIOS and set the BOOT ORDER to boot from CD first Boot.
The reboot the computer and you should see it say:
Press any key to boot from CD ...

and then you'd beon your way of install XP

Answer 5

if yoy built ur computer,u enter bios by pressing delete or some another key which it says to enter bios.....enter advanced features change boot order...to cd drive first and then hard disk..


the message u get when linux is in the hard drive or disk.....format and use hard disk

and when it says press any key to boot from cdrom rummage ur fingers thruout the keyboard just joking press any key

if its a sata drive u have have the drivers ready during windows install.....usually will ba asked to press f6 if u need a third party sata raid controller

ps---st the jumpers on the cddrive correctly....to /slave if you use only 1 connector to both...usually ide connector....this is usually shown as a picture on the drive....remove the plug and insert as shown in picture to slave.....

Answer 6

try clearing the CMOS. Unplug the potential cable from the potential grant. stumble on the CMOS battery. someplace close to it there could be a jumper. place the jumper on the replace pins for 30 seconds or so then replace the jumper on the unique pins. in case you are able to not locate this jumper, purely pop the battery out for roughly 30 seconds, then replace it. Plug the potential twine lower back in and it is going to paintings. The BIOS is extremely choosy approximately video enjoying cards, so fairly usually while set up a clean card or replace an present card, the CMOS will would desire to be cleared. you will would desire to establish the BIOS to Optimized Settings afterwards, or despite settings you like.