I just put together a computer and used the windows xp proffesional edition. It formatted my hard drive and copied files, however when it restarted it went into an endless boot up sequence. the only options I get is "delete" to enter setup which seems to offer no help or "tab" which shows the specs for some reason and the the endless boot sequence will start again in 10 seconds or the moment I hit escape. otherwise it just keeps rebooting every 7 secs If I sit back and watch it
The Motherboard is an Asus p5b-vm se
Hard drive is EIDE 320GB in case that may be a problem
I dont know what else to say, when I hold f8 to try some kind of safe mode it gives me a menu asking from what boot device to use:
Floppy Drive
IDE:WDC WD3200AAJB-5
IDE:CDU5211
none of which do anything but continue the boot sequence
thanks for the help
Additional Details
17 minutes ago
-yes i did take out the cd, still nothing
-I believe the cd might be the master because of how the ribbon cable fit better. I'm trying to check right now with my 10 second specifications view before it boots again >_<