ok i first turn on. it reads primary hard disk drive 1 not found. secondary hard disk drive 1 not found. strike the F1 key to continue, F2ot run the set up utility. I pressed the F2. In there it reads as followed;
Primary Drive 0: hard drive
Primary drive 1: off
secondary drive 0: CD-ROM Reader
secondary drive 1: off
Boot sequence:
1 is checked for hard disk drive C:
2 is checked for IDE CD-ROM Device
3 is not checked for Diskette Drive
Memory Info: 256 MB DDR SDRAM Installed system
266 MHz: system memory speed
256 MB: AGP Aperture
CPU Info: CPU Speed= normal
Bus speed= 533 MHz
Processor 0 ID = F27
Clock speed= 2.40 GHz
Cache Size= 512 KB
Integrated Devices (Legacy Select Options)
Sound= on
network interface controller= on
mouse port= on
USB emulation= on
USB controller= on
PCI slots= enabled
Serial Port 1= Auto
Paralle Port= <ENTER>
IDE Drive Interface= Auto
Diskette Interface= Auto
PC Speaker= on
Primary Video Controller= Auto
Vidoe DAC Snoop= on
Onboard Video Buffer= 8 MB
IDE Drive UDMA= on
PCI IRQ Assignment= these are the numbers she messed with. i dont know what these are supposed to be.
My sister is sending me the Windows XP Proffesional disk. what else do I need. Thank you for replying to my question and thank you for the help.