Help! BIOS not fully recognizing system devices

Hi. I am building a new computer with 512mb DDR generic RAM, MSI K7N2 Delta-ISLR, Athlon XP2500+, Maxtor 120gb hard drive, TDK VeloCD cd-rw drive. My problem is that
1-The Bios does not fully recognize the cd drive but instead garbles the name with slashes. Needless to say it will not read from the drve either.
2-The Bios fails to recognize the floppy drive at all and claims it is not there.
Both components are confirmed working in another computer. I'm at my wit's end; the only thing I could possibly think of are the cables, but then I was using the floppy drive cable successfully elsewhere and the cd drive cable is brand new. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong??

sorry got carried away with the 5's and the little dots.
15 Amps on the 12v is a bit week even for integrated video but should not give you these problems at least at boot.
I have an Allied 300w running my old K7n420 with no probs with similar amps.
If th RAM peformed flawlessly in your other system, what chipset was it? nVidia is another beast entirely.
Where did you buy that RAM? do they have a website?

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