I have an old 2002 tower made by northgate running phoenix bios and xp pro. when i try to boot it stops at post and says boot failure insert os disc and press enter, i do that and the same thing comes back. it has a red light on the motherboard. if i disconnect the cd drive and try to turn on it quickly turns of and wont turn back on unless i turn the power supply off and push power again. there are no beep codes. is there software that can run full diagnostics that runs on initial power on? also i could care less about the files so i was thinking of making the hdd a slave on another computer an deleting the parition to see if that worked.
