K9N4 Ultra-F (problem booting from disk.. any disk... or drive when at home)

my problem is pretty simple, l built my system myself and plugged it up all works fine, except l cannot boot from DVD/CD regardless of the drive (tried something other than the burner l bought for it), l also tried an external burner to receive the same problem (cannot boot from CD/DVD drive and the error code at the bottom of the screen was 808002F9)
now l did send the system back to the shop l bought everything from however altho they did find a fault (supposedly with an IDE cable) and run into the same error upon getting it home l was lumbered with been unable to install my OS.. l have sent it back again and now lm told that they were able to boot everything fine and have managed to install everything, what l dont get is why they can do as they wish and even install windows when lm unable to get it to even boot from CD let alone hear something other than one or two short beeps (varies for some reason) indicating something was wrong...
does anyone know what the error code 808002F9 means, and has anyone ever experience a problem like this where doing all the usual things (such as changing the slots the ram is in, changing IDE cables, and trying different drives) how did they overcome such troubles....

as said lm at a loss to really explain the problem myself, especially since l built the system and the only thing that changed is an IDE cable when novatech (the retailer l bought the components from) experienced the problem... since that time everyone except myself can boot the system, no matter the power point in my house same results happen of not been able to boot "any" disk and also the fact l get bios beeps in the form of one or two short (one short l believe is Dram refresh failure the other 2 short l believe means a ram parity error and the failure of one of the post hardware check tests [my bios is AMI]), in short the more l try to explain this problem the more circles l run in and the only answer l now end up with is... motherboard or RAM fault, but as of yet from what the tech has told me is as far as he sees everything is fine and in working order (including my wiring) until he runs a serious hardware test and finds a fault lm stuck with a £450 system that l cannot boot any disks on, sods law will dictate that l cannot boot from hard drive next as they installed the system for me but, time will tell.. thats if lm suck with the board that l cannot do much with from home...
on a side note the only difference between here and novatech is the electricity supply other than that lm connecting up the bare minimum in order to do the essentials.

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