new computer problem

[rollerguy]

I recently bought a barebones kit and got around to hooking it up today. I hooked up the cd rom and harddrive up at first and when it would boot it would give me the error:

disk boot failure please enter system disk and hit enter

I went into the bios and set the cdrom to boot first, but it appears it wasnt reading the cd-rom. So i googled this error message and it said to check the wires were all in place. So i fixed what i beleived was a backwards wire and now when i booted the next time the monitor would flick three times and then I would lose the monitor. But the cd rom sounded as if it was loading the windows os cd to try and install it. I tried with linux and the cd rom appeared to do the same thing, but the monitor would not show up.

The monitor is on a kvm switch and it works fine with the other two computers.

I really dont know where to go next.

 

[megamaced]

'please enter system disk' means to bios is looking to the hard drive for an Operating System but can't find one.

I would suggest you start again and check all of your connectors.

Make sure the hard drive is set to Master and is connected at the end of the IDE cable, and your CD-ROM is set to Slave and placed in the middle of the IDE cable.

Go into your BIOS and either select your Hard Drive from the menu or select Autodetect. When your computer POSTs, it will look for your drive.

Next, change your boot configuration to Cd-ROM (or d:\), C:\, A:\

Let me know if this works