After installing a new SATA-drive I am now unable to boot from my
CDROM. My system is A7N8X-DL rev2, bios 1007. 1xSATA, 2xIDE-HDD,
1xCDROM. Here's what I did:

- flashed bios from 1005 to 1007
- installed SATA-drive Maxtor 6Y120M0 on primary SATA connection
- used Maxtor's "Powermax 3.6" to transfer WinXPPro SP1 from IDE to
SATA

System boots fine from SATA-drive and XP is able to see and use all
installed hardware including CDROM. When booting into bios it detects
all hardware correctly. Everything seems to work until I set the boot
order in bios. Even when disabling all boot option except CDROM the
only thing I get is a bios message; "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS
ENTER". I tried several good bootable disks but no change.

Seems to me this is related to bios and not WinXp...

Any suggestions? Similar experiences? Thanks.
Bard.

"mrbardman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After installing a new SATA-drive I am now unable to boot from my
> CDROM. My system is A7N8X-DL rev2, bios 1007. 1xSATA, 2xIDE-HDD,
> 1xCDROM. Here's what I did:
>
> - flashed bios from 1005 to 1007
> - installed SATA-drive Maxtor 6Y120M0 on primary SATA connection
> - used Maxtor's "Powermax 3.6" to transfer WinXPPro SP1 from IDE to
> SATA
>
> System boots fine from SATA-drive and XP is able to see and use all
> installed hardware including CDROM. When booting into bios it detects
> all hardware correctly. Everything seems to work until I set the boot
> order in bios. Even when disabling all boot option except CDROM the
> only thing I get is a bios message; "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS
> ENTER". I tried several good bootable disks but no change.
>
> Seems to me this is related to bios and not WinXp...
>
> Any suggestions? Similar experiences? Thanks.
> Bard.

I can't help, but see here http://www.nforcershq.com/ , maybe someone here
can help you out.

Sorry! Clearing the CMOS fixed everything.

I ALWAYS clear the cmos after every bios upgrade.
Just saves any potential headaches.

"mrbardman" <mrbardman @ yahoo . com> wrote in message
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> Sorry! Clearing the CMOS fixed everything.
>
>