Shuttle SK43G Will not boot from CD ROM

[goofyhal]

Shuttle SK43G
AMD Sempron 2600
Corsair DDRAM 512MB PC-3200
Aopen Combo Drive 5232
Western Digital WD800 80Gig HD

I’m doing the initial power-up of this new unit. In spite of my best effort, The system will NOT boot from the Win XP CD. The BIOS appears to be set correctly. It has correctly identified both the HD & Optical drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pumpman]

you have set the first boot device in bios as the combo drive havent you ?
and disabled boot up floppy seek
if you have is the disc clean ?

[goofyhal]

This issue is resolved.
For those who are interested. I have a single HD & Optical drive, each on their own IDE channel. The jumper on both was set to master. Apparently this created a conflict. By removing both jumpers completely the system booted normally. I was able to format the drive and install Win XP without any further delay.

[pumpman]

well done for getting it sorted