I've been having this problem for a few days now (and doing personal research in addition to requests for help on EggXpert) and I was wondering if any users on Anandtech could help me out with this issue.
I have the aforementioned motherboard and after installing Windows (and formatting all the drives) my computer tells me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER."
So when this pops up, I found that if I leave the Windows XP CD in, it asks to boot from CD (which I just let it run without pressing enter) and Windows starts up normally. I changed the boot sequence so it goes HDD, CD, then REMOVABLE... but it didn't seem to solve anything.
I have 3x 250GB WD Caviars (all OEM from Newegg) and from what I've seen they read/write/function normally in Windows. Two of the HDDs are set in RAID 0 and in the boot sequence, this is the first HDD listed (with the backup being second).
I tried taking out hte battery on the MB and put it back in to reset the CMOS as has been suggested. Now instead of loading Windows while having the CD in, it loads the XP installation CD instead of the OS itself.
With no luck finding any solutions, I totally reformatted everything -- I deleted and reinstalled two of my HDDs and put them back in a RAID 0 setup and partitioned that setup to a C/D type of deal like before. Installed Windows and got the same issue.
This is really frustrating me because my roommate built the same exact build (except he's using the equivalent Seagate 250GB HDDs). He's thinking that it may be a problem with the HDDs, but so far it seems like all three of them are working fine. Again after reformatting, getting the same error, and putting the Windows XP CD back in... it loads Windows. Though this is nice... I'd like the system to start without having the CD in there.
I could really use the help as I dropped a good 1600+ on this system
Thanks guys! Any help is always appreciated.
I have the aforementioned motherboard and after installing Windows (and formatting all the drives) my computer tells me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER."
So when this pops up, I found that if I leave the Windows XP CD in, it asks to boot from CD (which I just let it run without pressing enter) and Windows starts up normally. I changed the boot sequence so it goes HDD, CD, then REMOVABLE... but it didn't seem to solve anything.
I have 3x 250GB WD Caviars (all OEM from Newegg) and from what I've seen they read/write/function normally in Windows. Two of the HDDs are set in RAID 0 and in the boot sequence, this is the first HDD listed (with the backup being second).
I tried taking out hte battery on the MB and put it back in to reset the CMOS as has been suggested. Now instead of loading Windows while having the CD in, it loads the XP installation CD instead of the OS itself.
With no luck finding any solutions, I totally reformatted everything -- I deleted and reinstalled two of my HDDs and put them back in a RAID 0 setup and partitioned that setup to a C/D type of deal like before. Installed Windows and got the same issue.
This is really frustrating me because my roommate built the same exact build (except he's using the equivalent Seagate 250GB HDDs). He's thinking that it may be a problem with the HDDs, but so far it seems like all three of them are working fine. Again after reformatting, getting the same error, and putting the Windows XP CD back in... it loads Windows. Though this is nice... I'd like the system to start without having the CD in there.
I could really use the help as I dropped a good 1600+ on this system
Thanks guys! Any help is always appreciated.
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