I am pulling my hair out in frustration .I have a Aspire SA 80 Desktop.
It has a SIS 661 GXM main board and a SATA 80 gig hard drive.
I am running Xp. I have 750meg of Ram and one iem cd burner,
I tried installing a new LG H62n DVD burner with SATA connections.
There is a open plug for the seta connection and a power plug.The Burner came with the seta connection as well as the power connections.I installed the writter in a few minuted but when i powered it up .The hard drive stalled and i just recieved the standard ACER screen ,No movement .
[I] unplugged th the new hardware and it booted up no problemo. I thought of changing the boot sequence but got unglued and had to reset the default values on BIOs.I have limeted knowledge in this sphere Please help other wise i have to shuffle off and pay some to do it for me.I dont want to.

Is that Linux XP?

This may be the wrong place to seek help for hardware issues or Windows boot problems.

Unplug the SATA dvd drive. Look over the motherboard carefully. You may have seperate SATA connections for optical drives (cd/dvd) and hard drives.

It sounds like you've plugged the dvd into a hard drive connection. Now, when you try to boot, tne XP bootloader in the MBR is looking for a bootable OS in the dvd.

As a test of my suspecion, try putting a livecd or livedvd in the drive, then power up.

What happens?