Verifying DMI Pool Data...Success and Boot from CD:

[gary727]

(i posted this in the wrong area earlier..sorry)

I have a home built PC that has had an IDE hard drive (master) Maxtor brand, and an SATA hard drive.

I was getting a System32 error of some sort (sorry, i don't have the exact message), and it would no longer let me boot into windows.

I tried reinstalling windows on the primary hard drive (IDE) but kept getting various errors about files that could not be copied to the hard drive...again, i do not have the exact error messages, sorry.

So at this point, I thought it might be primary hard drive (IDE), so I have removed it. Now only the SATA drive is connected, along with one CD RW drive on the primary ide channel.

I have booting from the XP CD to attempt installing Windows XP again, and now all I get is "Verifying DMI Pool Data...Update Success", and then the line below it has "Boot CD:"

I cannot seem to boot to a CD.

I have checked in the bios the Boot settings, which has CD first, HDD next, and then Floppy drive.

I have removed the motherboard pin to flash it as well.

I have checked the cables to the SATA drive, and the CD RW drive, and they are connected properly.

So now I'm not sure if I have some other sort of hardware issue or what.
I don't know what else to do...any help is GREATLY appreciated