Windows XP & Other OS Discs Won't Boot!!!

I have a computer I've built out of some new and old parts. The main old piece in it is an Asus TUV4X motherboard that I think came out around 2002/2003. It supports changing the boot order to allow cds to boot first and stuff. But for some reason when I put in any Windows XP Home, Pro, and Win 98 discs it won't boot from them. I get a message that says:

The OS discs won't work!!! But funny thing is I have a Vista disc and it does work if you try to boot from it. I also have an Ubuntu Linux Live Dvd and it works fine. I need to install XP on the pc I built but have no idea how to do it if it won't allow me to load the discs. What do I do???


Thanks

 

Are you sure that the disks that won't work are bootable? Seems strange that two would work and others wouldn't.

 

Some drives just don't like some disks, fact.

 

Forgot to ask, but Earthling's above post reminded me. Are the disks that won't work factory original or burned disks? Only reason for asking is that I've had issues with some versions of burning software to make bad disks off of a known good ISO ( made off original ) and swapping burning app versions solved the problem.

 

That could help me too. My laptop is fine with factory produced disks but usually fails with any ISO burnt with Nero, even though my oher comps are OK with it. What else do you use?

 

@Earthling,

I experienced this issue with the earlier versions of Nero 7. Did a little research and found that it was a problem with a lot of other people, and the ISO had given no problems with Nero 6, so now I'm using one of the latter versions of Nero ( 7.9.6 ) , and ImgBurn is also great for burning ISO's. Just be sure to turn down the burning speed, if using a slower system, when burning DVD's. This app will automatically default to the fastest speed that the burner and disk being written to is capable of and can result in read errors even on drives that have technology built in to prevent same. The burning software was faster than the hard drives ability/speed to fill the device buffer, resulting in read errors when verifying the disk. ImgBurn can be located here, http://www.majorgeeks.com/ImgBurn_d4870.html. Hope this helps!

 

No offense but you guys are hijacking my thread! lol

Anyways I did try booting off the Vista cd and deleting all partitions on the one and only single hdd I have in my system, and not formatting it. But still the XP discs and even the Win 98 cd won't work. This is so troublesome... I really need to install XP. I have three different XP cds and none work! I'm going nuts here. Why isn't it working?

It tries to load the discs and than the screen goes blank. I even got a new LG optical drive yesterday to see if it had to do with the other dvd drive I have. & that one doesn't allow it to work either. Is this a bios issue? I bought the Asus TUV4X motherboard on ebay because I like to recycle old computer parts instead of having them end up in a dump. Seriously if anyone can help please do.

 

Sorry 'bout that. Here's a suggestion to compensate

It is possible to carry out what is called a flat installation of XP, Vista etc, essentially by first copying the installation files from CD to hard disk. I have not tried this to a clean disk but believe it possible.

Here's M$ on the subject -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294727

Good luck, and apologies again.

 

I've done a bit of research and the "No Emulation" isn't an error, but a prompt, so I have to ask, did you press the key to boot from CD? Apparently, from all that I found, you aren't the only one having this problem! The "No Emulation" means the the disk doesn't follow "El Torrito" specs for bootable CD's, as it doesn't act like a floppy. I would expect this out of XP, but not Win98.

What OS was previously installed on the hard drive?

One solution that I found while researching was the use of an older and slower CD-Rom drive to do the installation. Another was a bios update. And another was to download the floppies available from Microsoft for your version of XP ( Home or Pro ). These are only solutions that I've found and haven't tried, and won't gurantee any to work.

Were it my computer, I would use this, http://www.majorgeeks.com/Dariks_Boot_and_Nuke_d4596.html. And then I would try the installation again.

Noticed that you still didn't answer whether the XP disks were factory original or burned copies?


Hope this helps!

 

I tried using the Windows XP SP2 floppy start up disc from Microsoft's website. But it didn't even load at all! & I had my Floppy drive set to boot first. I don't know what's wrong with my new built pc. I must admit I did set all of the Bios settings to they're default using the DEFAULT SETTINGS option in the Bios. I did it because the motherboard was used and I wanted to set everything as normal when the motherboard is new. Little did I not expect all the large features in this Asus Bios. So what am I to do now? Maybe I touched something in the Bios or need to turn it off.

You can read the manual to my motherboard which includes Bios pics, and default settings here:

http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=TUV4X&product=1&type=Map&SLanguage=en-us
[Online/Downloadable PDF]

Maybe you guys can check to see if there's something I need to turn on or off.

Thanks

 

A friend told me to try clearing the CMOS. But isn't that the same as using "Restore All Settings To Default" in my Bios? From the little experience I have with Bios' and CMOS'. I thought that clearing it only wipes out passwords.