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Motherboard problem

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DelD

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Looking for a little advice and clarification on what I believe the problem is with the motherboard.

System specs. Pentium 4 2.8 Gig, 478 chipset, ASUS P4C800-E, ATI 9800 video card, 2 Gig ram

I a fairly certain I have a MB problem, but thought I run it by everyone to make sure.

I get the following error when booting up: "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

The computer will boot off of a windows XP CD (I reloaded XP thinking that the HD had gotten corrupted) but when I remove the CD I get the same error.

Hard drives work, I put both in another machine and had no problems. So that only leaves the MB unless I missed something.........??

Next question.......I am thinking of just replacing with another 478 chipset board, but have no idea which is a good board atm. I did alot of reseach when I built this machine and at the time the P4C800-E was about the best for a P4.....I am currently looking at getting the ASUS P4S800D-X as I can not find another P4C800-E. Any advice here would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks for your time

Del D

 
I'm guessing you've already set the BIOS to boot from your hard drives instead of booting off of the CD-Rom drive, right? Are your hard drives recognized within the BIOS? Can you run Hitachi's Drive Fitness Tool

You may also want to swap the IDE ports the CD-Rom is connected to for the one the hard drive(s) are connected to and vice versa.
 
The MB detects the hard drives correctly, they are WD 120Gig drives.

Also will access the HD enough to reinstall XP with no errors, but if I remove the XP CD the MB will not boot.

The hard drives are in the boot sequence, but they are second or 3rd on the list. I know I checked it earlier today, just cant remember where in the sequence they are.
 
Try and put the hard drive with Windows as the first boot device. Try disconnecting the CD-Rom from the motherboard as well and then trying to boot.
 
I had a very similar problem.Come to find out, it was just a bad floppy that wouldn't let me fully boot to windows.
 
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