Trouble installing

[theWalrusKing]

I am having trouble installing win xp pro. In my bios i selected boot from cd, and then when i rebooted it booted up the windows setup and when it was done it rebooted again. Now this is where it started. When it rebooted it went back to verifying DMI pool data.... , the only diff from before is that it stops here. It doesnt boot from the cd anymore or boot from a hd. I have gone into the bios and told it to boot from the cd, hd0, hd1, hd2, hd3, in every order pssible but it still stops at the verifying dmi pool data..... Should i let it sit there at that for awhile? the hd never spins up at this step. One final thing is, when i go to boot from cd, to maybe do it over the boot from cd only boots say 1/ten reboots, still sitting there at the verifying dmi pool data..... i cant find any helo from anywhre. is there a way to actually get by all this boot from stuff and directly go to dos or windows.??????

[Cricket]

Post your system specs by brand and model.

Try replacing the IDE cables.

Try booting it up with the CD-ROM drive (or other optical drives) disconnected.

Cricket

[morriswindgate]

Did you make the partition on the hard drive where you are installing windows Active?

[theWalrusKing]

how do i make it active?

[theWalrusKing]

ok, i have a brand new a7n8x asus board, with a amd barton 2500, and 512mb ram, a 120 gig, with the e: drive partitioned for the OS, i have a cd drive installed, but no floppy drive. I have ample power. I have no os but i am trying to install xp Pro. Two things wrong, maybe its one that acts like two. First thing, though i have found a partial fix, is that when the system is booting up, after it tests memory it goes to cd boot up....., or just boot up.... the line before this says
verifying DMI pool data..... and here it says no more until it gets to the cd boot:...
it should tell me verifying DMI pool data.... successful
but it doesnt. Now what i looked on the internet and found is that if i through bios disable the 2 cache settings and reboot the v dmi will succeed and it does. But it only does this once, until i go and reenable the 2 cache files. so this is annoying.


When I boot up, originally i set boot first cdrom drive. So after reboot on occasion the cd rom boots, it doesnt always, most of the time the system hangs at
cd boout up... or something. when it does, i get through the win xp setup, and it reboots itself, now i have read i let it reboot and it will see the boot from cd message and go past it, however when it gets there the boot from cd... message just hangs and on three of the screens spots, dos type blocks turn red and blink on the screen, ok i know this is alot but im hoping to get atleast a tidbit of info, please help. and does anyone know if my mb maker is whom i should call first??????????