Need help with a old AMD system

I have this old AMD system that was given to me by a guy at work, and i can't get it to go into windows. It's weird it will read the hard drive but not the cdrom drive, but if I turn the ide cable upside down on the cdrom it will read it but as a secondary drive not the primary. When it does happen to read the hard drive it won't get past the windows boot screen. I'm at a loss here guy's because I have never really worked with a AMD system, all I've ever messed with are intel system's. So there is my Problem, and here's the computer spec's incase it will help. AMD K6-2/500, 32 or 64 ram I can't remember exactly, 10gig Maxtor, some old generic cdrom, Mad dog multimedia geforce 5200, dlink wireless card.
So there it is thanks for your help in advance.

This may sound stupid, but did you check the jumper settings on the drives?

Sure did, except i don't have any jumpers for the cdrom drive, but shouldnt it by default be the primary?

Ok i got the cdrom to read ( I found a jumper). So i formatted the drive and it's up and runing so sorry for troubling you guys when I figured it out myself lol.