Cant install windows . Not detecting hard drives

[mdklassen]

> when i start it up with the USB in, i get the no bootable device thing.

SIgh.  The drawbacks/limitations of having an "antique" motherboard.

To repeat: download UBUNTU onto DVD-recordable media, and boot your computer from it, to "prove" that your computer's BIOS is capable of booting "something".

Or, take the USB memory-stick, and your disk-drive, to another, newer, desktop, computer, remove that computer's disk-drive, and boot from USB onto your disk-drive, and install Windows, up to the point where Windows tells you to reboot. At that point, shutdown, instead of restarting.  Move the disk-drive back to your computer, and boot from it.  Success? Fail?

[mdklassen]

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@Northterror wrote:
It's still not detecting any hard drives when 2 of them are brand new.
While trying to install windows i get as far as the black screen with a blinking curser.
The when i start it up with the usb in i get the no bootable device thing

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Exactly which disk-drives are connected?  Older motherboards have problems with "large-capacity" disk-drives.

Depending on the motherboard, the maximum capacity could be 500 GB or 1000 GB or 2000 GB.

If the disk-drives are not compatible, and your antique computer does not support booting from USB, then you could get the "no bootable device" message. 

Try booting "something" from CD/DVD, For example, the RAM-testing program from www.memtest.org

to prove that the BIOS is capable of booting "anything".