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I recently installed a new motherboard and I had to use Ubuntu (a Linux CD OS) just to get my monitor to come on, I have narrowed the problem down to this – when my hard drives are installed (either one or both of them) my computer acts like it’s booting but the monitor never switches on.
The reason for the new MoBo was a bad power supply, could this have ruined my two HD’s and nothing else?
My jumpers are correct, my cables are too, my power supply and MoBo work fine with Ubuntu, but the hard drive wont boot the PC, nor will the PC work with the HD hooked up.

Me and my dad are trying to do a duel boot. He installed Debian already and now we went to install XP but the computer wont boot the cd. We have various XP disks but none of them will boot from Cd. He even tryed to configure the BIOS so that it ONLY boots from cdrom, but alas no luck.

Is there any other way we can install XP, or maybe copy XP from another hard drive onto this one?

hes a smart guy and i only know a little big… but im asking for him… so any ideas would be apriciated