issues with barebone kit

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:

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.

 

First of all... on your motherboard.. is the video card a PCI or AGP ?

Do you recieve any beep errors upon booting?

Does your HDD lock up?

Need to know these things so we can give a more accurate suggestions to your problems.

thanks~