Please help the newbie!

[dj92]

Hi guys,

Just joined in the hope that someone out there can help me please.

I bought an Evesham 3000 Blue Beast computer a couple of days ago. The HDD has been removed and I put in a formatted 120Gb drive to use it but I cannot get the PC to boot from the menu.

I set it to boot from CD but nothing happens. I am trying to install W7 Ultimate which I have in another pc and it works fine, slow but fine.

It has an Intel 865PE chipset, 512 ram and 3 GHz P4 processor.

Last night I tried , once again, to boot up and finished up with an error message that said 'Cannot boot from CD-Error Code 5'.

 

Does this mean anything to any of you out there please.

 

I just want to get the computer up and running as my old PC is getting really slow suddenly and I need something I can rely on.

 

Any help will be gratefully received and if you need any more information then just ask.

 

Here's hoping,

 

Regards,

Derek.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

A couple of things, I assume this is a second hand computer seeing it has no HDD and therefore there may be a chance the CD/DVD drive isn't working, hence the error code.

The next thing is this version of Windows 7 you want to install, what type of disk is it on and what do you know about the license for it?

If a single use only, reinstalling it to a different computer will be breaking license terms.

 

Nev.

[Starbuck]

With only 512mb ram you'd be very lucky to get a response out of Win7.

[KenB]

Win 7 system requirements:

 

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
   
  You STILL cannot have the same OS on two systems unless you have a multi-license that came with the original disk.