Recent content by Boxxman

Well I'm back sooner than expected. While browsing through my BIOS to turn off my quick boot I noticed something that had hard drive order, not boot sequence. Somehow my boot drive got put to the 2nd HD (not the 2nd boot device). Basically I changed it to the first and left on quick boot and...

Being that I have time this weekend to do some tests like that I'm sure i'll be able to narrow the issue, if not fix it. I have SATA drives so i dont know how much better those cables are. for now i'll try changing the fast detect, just to see. Expect another post on what worked and what...

Yes, but as I've said earlier my HDs are still detect on POST and its been booting fine for the first 10 months.

I don't think its the cables b/c everything works fine except for on boot. they are detected by the BIOS, I can select it from the boot menu and it boots, and they all function fine in XP.

From these posts I'm going towards the BIOS chip or the battery. My BIOS detects all my drives, SATA and IDE and its worked correctly for almost a year. Without changing anything I have a hard time believing my BIOS stopped detecting them (plus I can see them on POST). Thanks for the help and...

I like your creativity but getting into Windows isn't an issue yet, its just not booting correctly. If I hit F8 to go to the Boot Menu I can select my Raptor with Windows XP on it and it runs from there. I also have Windows XP on an external USB harddrive so if i ever need to boot from that I...

I'll check, but I've tried having my hard drive the first in the boot sequence and i didnt see it fix the problem.

Hmm, that sounds interesting. I to have an Asus MOBO, more specifically I have the A8N-SLI Deluxe. I flashed the BIOS to 1014 and i swear it worked for the first reboot but now it does the disk failure again. Any additional info?

I have windows XP PRO installed on my Athlon 64 3500+ PC. It's been running great for months and months but now if I restart I get the 'Disc Boot Failure, Insert Systems Disc and Press Enter' prompt. I have no disc in the floppy drive or dvd-rom. My boot sequence is this: CD-ROM, Floppy...