Anybody want to help me build/troubleshoot my PC (Leeds/Yorkshire) for cash payment?

[davidstone28]

Bah, I've bought all the bits but its years since I last built a PC from scratch and I can't remember having this much trouble.

1. Asus A8N Premium
2. Venice 3200+
3. Ballistix RAM
4. DVD/HDDs etc

Basically, I can't even get into the WinXP installation page and not sure what's going wrong and I don't really the time or patience to faff around with this sort of stuff.

Sooooo......if there is anyone eg. student types that want to earn a few quid by coming round my house and spend a day plugging/unplugging cables/intalling WinXP etc, a cash payment is waiting for anyone who can get my PC up and running with WinXP installed.

I should have bought an Apple Mac.

[herulach]

Where abouts in leeds are you? Youve checked all the obvious stuff? (Leads connected properly, boot order set right etc)

Are you getting any errors? (No boot disk etc)

[FatalSaviour]

Hey David.
Is it actually getting into BIOS...you have some information on your screen before it goes tits up?
If you let us know what kind of error message your geting, or when it actually fails, we may be able to help, without you parting with your hard earned cash .

[davidstone28]

Update: Okay, I've managed to sort this out. Somewhat embarassingly, the problem was caused by my Windows XP CD. Apparently, it was one of those 'reinstall CDs' and not the full bootable version, when meant that the CD couldn't read off the CD, when I BIOS booted it.

[FatalSaviour]

Great. Pleased you've got it sorted.