Finally an end to a frustrating saga of a windows xp clean install (media center was acting wacky and my research convinced me this was my last resort). I couldn’t get my Dell 8400 to boot from my Philips DVD, so I couldn’t completely wipe out the hard drive for teh new installation. After some searching online, I was totally convinced that the DVD player was the problem…many forum people complaining that this this DVD player from dell was a peice of crap.

I went out and bought a new DVD player. At this point I figured it was either that or I was going to have to pay someone anyway to come over here and get things straightened out. I had uninstalled, reinstalled, new drivers, etc…up to this point. Once I got into the PC to put in the new DVD, I noticed that the jumper on the CD player and on the DVD player were both set to “cable” instead of “master” and “slave”. After I moved the pins and did a restart with the same old DVD player, it finally worked! YAY me!

If only I could figure these things out in an hour or two instead of three days!:shock: