Greetings CH!!

my latest project i wanted to dual boot a machine to play my old old games. So heres what i patched together.

Sis mobo dont know what kinda
512mb DDr ram
AMD athlon 1600+
20gb +40GB hDD

So here is what i wanna do. I wanted to install windows 98 (which i did) for all my old dos games. but the system would tend to freeze when i tried to play a audio cd in WINAMP. I wanna dual boot it with win 7 so i can still web browse with it.

Yes im aware that this whill be a SLOW win 7 machine. im ok with that. But my issue is i try to boot off the DVD and i get:
CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code: 5

Any ideas as to why im getting this???Hi Comda,

You might need to check the minimum specifications website for windows 7 specifications because that computer seems very low spec, i had a few issues running windows 7 on older computers. It's good that you know it will RUN slow so that's nothing for me to say but just double check if it's at all possible to run windows 7 with those specs.

Let me know how you go and if you need any help.

Thanks,Are you sure you have a DVD DRIVE?  I've seen this error when trying to boot from a DVD when the machine only had a CD drive, I hadn't looked at it properly.
Just thought it was worth mentioning as the machine is older, it may not have a DVD drive.+ 1 Calum.Just to be clear, when I ran into this I totally didn't spend 30-45 minutes checking connections, moving the drive between connectors on the board, cleaning the disk, ETC, before checking if the drive could read DVDs...that must've been someone else yes im sure its a DVD drive. A DVD rom by samsung to be more exact. cant REMEMBER the exact model number. I tried another DVD drive aswell. i read online that i may need a boot disk for older systems. is there one i can trust? I tried downloading ultimate boot cd but pc optimizer installed and gave me massive adware issues. Are these USB DVD drives you mention ? ?
An older MBoard won't support booting to USB.So i found this article saying older machines cant boot cause of incompatability. i will try reburning the dvd at a slower speed.

http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/code5-error.html?lang=EN

and no this is an internal IDE dvd drive