KiDr..............
If your BIOS is similiar to mine for your Asus board, do this to
boot to CD-ROM.
Get in to BIOS and go to the "BOOT" section.
1. Removable Device ie. Legacy Floppy - set to DISABLED
2. IDE Hard Drive - Set to NONE
3. ATAPI CD-ROM - Make sure one of the 2 Memorex drives you
have is identified for your CD-ROM device-select it
4. Other Boot Device - set to DISABLED-you may not need to do this
if your CD-ROM is found before it looks for "Other Boot Device"
5. Go to "EXIT" and select "Save Changes" and reboot
This should ignore your hard drive, floppy drive etc and find the
only available device as CD-ROM and with a XP CD it should
boot. When finished formatting etc, reselect and enable each
device that was previously listed and install your OS.
You should make yourself a boot disk any way!!!!!!!!!!!
Let us know how it goes for you.....