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Matthauz View Member Profile	Mar 25 2006, 10:18 AM Post #1
New Member Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP	My new pc arrived sans an optical drive and operating system. I popped a DVDRW into IDE1, my hardrive is connected to SATA1. upon turning the pc on I get..... "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key" Primary boot device is set to the DVDRW drive, DVDRW is Primary Master. Will not boot from CD and let me install windows. However popping my motherboard CD in lets it boot from cd and it wants me to make a boot disk?! However I do not have a floppy drive. Why wont it JUST boot from the Windows XP CD, I didn't have this problem with my old pc, I just popped the CD in straight away and it let me install!!! Please help! System is: ASUSŽ A8R-MVP: DUAL DDR, S-ATA, 2 x x16 VGA, 3 PCI Motherboard SATA II 160 GB HARD DISK

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Matthauz "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in se Mar 25 2006, 10:18 AM

FuM Sry in advance if this isnt helpful Did you follo... Mar 25 2006, 01:29 PM

Matthauz QUOTE(FuM @ Mar 25 2006, 07:29 PM) 612246... Mar 26 2006, 09:05 AM

SRX660 This sounds like you have a dvd-rw and a cdrom dri... Mar 27 2006, 04:36 PM

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