Have you tried going through setup. To access setup, as soon as your computer turns on press the 'Del' key. this would take you to setup. When there access the 'BIOS FEATURES' menu and  choose 'd-rom, c and floppy'. This would instruct your Pc to boot from CD-ROM first. After this you can now re-start your PC with the boot disk inside the drive. This should do the trick.



Daniel Wilde <[log in to unmask]> wrote: hi
im trying to load xp on to my new pc but i cant get to either dos or install xp fresh from cd in either case the computer just locks and nothing seems to happen. any ideas please

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