First time building a PC - Problems booting...

[jcollins]

I am building my first budget gaming PC, and have installed all the parts. When booting my PC, I get a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" before anything else comes up. No chance to get at the BIOS, nothing. The PC won't boot from the DVD drive at all. Any help is greatly appreciated, this has been a very frustrating (and long) first attempt, I would like it to be successful eventually.

[newbuilder14]

Welcome to PCMech. :)

To help you, we will need complete system specifications, the components and makes/models.

[jcollins]

Okay, hope this is what you need:

APEVIA X-CRUISER-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

ASUS P5VD2-X LGA 775 VIA PT890 ATX Intel Motherboard

EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

Rosewill RP550-2 ATX 2.01 550W Power Supply 115/230 V CSA, CB, TUV, FCC, UL

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) System Memory

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

LG Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-ROM E-IDE/ATAPI DVD-ROM Drive Model GDR-8164BK

HP 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With LightScribe, 12X DVD-RAM Write Black IDE Model DVD940I

Windows XP Pro

[Alaron]

Does that message pop up when you have the Windows disc in the drive already? If so, take it out and boot the machine. Then go into the BIOS and set the DVDROM as the first boot device, pop in the disc and restart.

[jcollins]

I get the message either way, and no option to enter the BIOS at all.

[Alaron]

How do you have your optical drives jumpered? The best way to go is to set them both to Cable Select (CS).

[jcollins]

The burner is set master, the reader is set slave. I will try that, and let you know, thank you.

[LeftyAce]

no option to enter the BIOS at all.

Check your motherboard manual, and find out which key you have to press to enter BIOS. When you turn on the computer, listen for the beep, and hit that key. That should get you into the BIOS. If there's no beep, try tapping the key right after the comp comes on. You should be able to get into the bios :eek:

*edit* My asus board uses the DEL key to get into the BIOS. Might be the same for you.
Once you're in, check the boot order and make sure the dvd drive is set to boot first.