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[nboy22]

I got this board yesterday and have been TRYING to get it to boot up with my athlon 64 3000+. The problem is, after DMI verifying, it says I need to insert a system disk even though windows xp is already installed on my existing hard drive that IS on master and IS on my primary cable. The weird thing is, I thought I might as well just boot up and install windows xp pro again, so that's what I did, Worked fine!........ until I restarted, and it did the EXACT same thing as before, "Please insert a system disk"... PLEASE help, this is getting me mad, I've turned off raid, and I'm just running regular IDE drives, here's how it's setup. Primary cable: 120 gig WD on master, and 80 gig WD on slave. Secondary Cable: Cd burner on master, Seagate 80 gig on slave.

I know my computer detects these drives because it shows them all in the correct order in the post, but why is it not seeing the OS on the 120 gig HDD if it can read off of the drive?

 

[mechBgon]

Go into your board's BIOS and make sure that your hard drive, or its controller, is one of the boot devices in the list. For a Gigabyte, that would be in the BIOS under Advanced BIOS Features.

 

[nboy22]

already did that, yes my 120 is the first in the list... and no, it doesn't work still 🙁

 

[mechBgon]

Are the hard drives on the controller highlighted here? Yes = good, these are the board's native ATA plugs. The lower pair are on the RAID controller. The photo's actually of the nF3 150 version, but it has the same layout.

 

[sandorski]

take the disk out of your floppy drive

 

[nboy22]

Ok... so here's the update, now I can get into windows.. but the catch is, I must have the windows xp cd in while booting up.. or else it just says PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK.... which I then insert the xp cd, press enter and it goes boot from cd press enter..... where i just sit there and let the dots pass, then it goes straight to windows..... weird huh? I have no clue as there are NO cdrom settings, everything is set to hard disk in the Bios. Just blows my mind at what could be causing this, and no, There is no floppy in my floppy drive because the floppy drive isn't even hooked up...

 

[nboy22]

Solved: here's what happened - So I took off the secondary IDE cable and boom straight to windows within a few seconds.. put it back on, and got the same old message... I then saw and remembered that my cdrom was on master, so I switched the 80 gig HDD and the cdrom around so now the master is the HDD and the slave is the cdrom.. works fine.. strange problem don't know why they made it like that...