Boot up freeze

[Professor]

I've built my parents a computer and the first time I started it up, it was fine and asked for the Windows Cd and so I put it in. Windows began it's hardware checking, then didn't recognize my HD. I realized that I forgot to plug power into my HD. So I turned off my computer and plugged my HD in.

Then I started up the computer once again, but this time it freezes while it is on the PCI Listing. I don't know why, I've tried everything to get it to work.

Can anyone help?


Here are the specs:

ASPIRE X-Dreamer ATXB3KL-BK/420 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower w/ 420W PS
GIGABYTE GA-K8U-939 Socket 939 ULi M1689 ATX AMD Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 566-BLK Radeon 9800SE 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor
GeIL Value 512MB (2 x 256MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 HD
Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2

 

[Praetor]

Does Memtest or Memtest86+ work?

 

[Professor]

Nevermind, sorry, it was so easy that I didn't even think of it. I don't have a floppy drive and my boot order has the floppy as the first drive to check so my mobo just freezes and forever searches for the floppy. So I put the cd/dvd drive as first priority and it worked. Thanks though. Hope this helps someone else in the future.