Windows XP setup boot loop
I've been pulling my hair out of my head for 11 hours now. Heres the situation....
I put together a brand new pc (specs at bottom) and i go to install windows xp pro from the cd. I have no a: drive, so i booted right to the cd. It starts to go into the setup process(all of this in dos-windows, like not the real windows, but the dos-grafic-like windows setup). It formats my HDD, and then it copies files to the harddrive. It then says that it needs to reboot and when it does so, it reboots and then doesn't boot from the harddrive, but back to the cd and it starts over again. 10 minutes later or so (takes forever) windows setup comes up and im back where i started. When i went into bios and told it to boot to the hdd only, it boots and says "insert bootable media" HELP ME!!!!
MOBO: ASUS P4P800 SE
Processor: Inter Pentium 4 3ghz w/ HT
HDD: Samsung 160 gb
Grafix card: GeForce FXX 5200
Ram: SAmsung 2x 256mb chips (512mb total)
Lite-on DVD Burner
msg me on aim: rentaL99 if you have the solution or post it here , please help.
I put together a brand new pc (specs at bottom) and i go to install windows xp pro from the cd. I have no a: drive, so i booted right to the cd. It starts to go into the setup process(all of this in dos-windows, like not the real windows, but the dos-grafic-like windows setup). It formats my HDD, and then it copies files to the harddrive. It then says that it needs to reboot and when it does so, it reboots and then doesn't boot from the harddrive, but back to the cd and it starts over again. 10 minutes later or so (takes forever) windows setup comes up and im back where i started. When i went into bios and told it to boot to the hdd only, it boots and says "insert bootable media" HELP ME!!!!
MOBO: ASUS P4P800 SE
Processor: Inter Pentium 4 3ghz w/ HT
HDD: Samsung 160 gb
Grafix card: GeForce FXX 5200
Ram: SAmsung 2x 256mb chips (512mb total)
Lite-on DVD Burner
msg me on aim: rentaL99 if you have the solution or post it here , please help.
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