Well, the power went off, and not having my XP box hooked up to a UPS, when I rebooted it, it was way to slow to reboot. Basically, after the BIOS booting messages, and before any of the XP graphics ...
I do not have a floppy drive installed only a sata from Seagate and a CD-rom drive, i insert Home XP OS cd in drive then reboot, but cannot get drive to read the CD to load OS, i can get to Bios ...