Help..please!!! just a beg. in computers. bought an ibm computer from a store that "strips" them down?? and then resells them to the public. also. bought the disc to install windows xp. (had 98 prev.??) shows up at first when i turn on. then after that it just says "no device driver found" no valid cd rom device driver selected??? sooo, confused. had a couple people try to help. no luck!!! it will not do nothing else,even in dos.

You don't normally require DOS to install XP - if your CD drive is working, and can be set as the first boot device, simply boot from the XP CD and take it from there If it's your intention to install 98, then a Win98 boot disk is the way to go - assuming your CD drive is: a) working b) standard IDE You'd probably be further ahead to post in General Hardware - that, and decide which OS you're going to go with We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true