The Setup series starts again your PC, you are impelled to "press any key to boot from the CD, when you attempt to install Microsoft Windows XP from the Windows XP installation CD-ROM. The Setup program might initiate again from the start, when you press a key. This activity replicates frequently.

This activity happens because your computer BIOS gives the note "press any key to boot from the CD". You can choose from where to initiate computer from a CD-ROM. If you have positioned the CD-ROM drive to be the primary device that the BIOS utilizes to initiate an OS, and in your CD-ROM drive having a bootable CD-ROM, you will be impelled to click any input if you feel to initiate the computer with the operating system.

If you don’t tab a button while the computer shows this prompt, the BIOS looks to the next bootable device to start the computer. For e.g. it might look for a hard disk or a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk. If the Windows XP installation CD-ROM is still in you CD-ROM drive when Setup restarts your computer, your computer BIOS identifies the bootable CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive. If you press any key, Windows XP console restarts.

Don’t press a tab when Windows XP console starts again your computer. The BIOS initiates computer from hard drive, and Windows XP console carry on.

Or else, take away the Windows XP CD-ROM from the CD-ROM disk when Setup starts again computer. The BIOS does not identified the bootable media in the CD-ROM drive and doesn’t prompt you to press any key to initiate your computer from the CD. The BIOS initiates your PC from hard disk, and Windows XP console continues.