Multiple issues

[comda]

Greetings CH!!

my latest project i wanted to dual boot a machine to play my old old games. So heres what i patched together.

Sis mobo dont know what kinda
512mb DDr ram
AMD athlon 1600+
20gb +40GB hDD

So here is what i wanna do. I wanted to install windows 98 (which i did) for all my old dos games. but the system would tend to freeze when i tried to play a audio cd in Winamp. I wanna dual boot it with win 7 so i can still web browse with it.

Yes im aware that this whill be a SLOW win 7 machine. im ok with that. But my issue is i try to boot off the DVD and i get:
CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code: 5

Any ideas as to why im getting this???

[pst33l]

Hi Comda,

You might need to check the minimum specifications website for windows 7 specifications because that computer seems very low spec, i had a few issues running windows 7 on older computers. It's good that you know it will run slow so that's nothing for me to say but just double check if it's at all possible to run windows 7 with those specs.

Let me know how you go and if you need any help.

Thanks,

[Calum]

Are you sure you have a DVD Drive?  I've seen this error when trying to boot from a DVD when the machine only had a CD drive, I hadn't looked at it properly.
Just thought it was worth mentioning as the machine is older, it may not have a DVD drive.

[patio]

+ 1 Calum.

[Calum]

Just to be clear, when I ran into this I totally didn't spend 30-45 minutes checking connections, moving the drive between connectors on the board, cleaning the disk, etc, before checking if the drive could read DVDs...that must've been someone else

[comda]

yes im sure its a DVD drive. A DVD rom by samsung to be more exact. cant remember the exact model number. I tried another DVD drive aswell. i read online that i may need a boot disk for older systems. is there one i can trust? I tried downloading ultimate boot cd but pc optimizer installed and gave me massive adware issues.

[patio]

Are these USB DVD drives you mention ? ?
An older MBoard won't support booting to USB.

[comda]

So i found this article saying older machines cant boot cause of incompatability. i will try reburning the dvd at a slower speed.

http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/code5-error.html?lang=EN

and no this is an internal IDE dvd drive