A7N8X-E will not boot into windows xp

LeoMael

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Jul 16, 2002
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I have tried everything I can possibly try. I just got this board. I installed winxp and everything went fine. Yet if I reboot the computer, I get DISK BOOT ERROR. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
I have turned off all options I don't use(SATA, Firewire, onboard sound, Gigabit LAN). If I reinstall windows it'll load as if it see my boot disk, reset it same error as above. I tried my 80gb drive in another computer to see if it was dying, boots windows fine. What gives?

Specs:
Athlon XP Barton 2500+ (stock speeds)
A7N8X-E Deluxe
512MB Kingston PC3200
Radeon 9500pro (stock speeds)
Audigy2 ZS
1x 80GB WD hard drive (boot drive)
1x 40GB WD hard drive (slave)
 

jkresh

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Jun 18, 2001
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check which drive bios is tying to boot off of, also make sure to remove any flopies from the drive. Sounds like it is trying to either boot off of a flopy or off of your other drive. If settings apear correct in bios try unplugging the slave drive and see what happens.