Hi! I'm having a problem with this motherboard. Everything works fine, I can
boot up with Floppy and CD-ROM but can't boot on Hard Disk Drive. I know
that hard drive is working great cause the BIOS detects it, even when I boot
on Windows XP Install CD I can delete the partition and even install Windows
XP on it, everything works fine. But as soon as I try to boot the computer
without floppy or CD-ROM it only gives me a black screen and nothing
happens... I tried to look in the BIOS in the boot sequence, my hard drive
is there... even when I press F8 before the computer loads, I can select my
hard drive but there again, I only get black screen and no boot up... anyone
got this error??

I upgraded my BIOS to the latest BETA version... I don't know what to do...

Thanks!

Bitstring <OGZlf.2741$(E-Mail Removed)>, from the
wonderful person Chris Galipeau <(E-Mail Removed)> said
>Hi! I'm having a problem with this motherboard. Everything works fine, I can
>boot up with Floppy and CD-ROM but can't boot on Hard Disk Drive. I know
>that hard drive is working great cause the BIOS detects it, even when I boot
>on Windows XP Install CD I can delete the partition and even install Windows
>XP on it, everything works fine. But as soon as I try to boot the computer
>without floppy or CD-ROM it only gives me a black screen and nothing
>happens... I tried to look in the BIOS in the boot sequence, my hard drive
>is there... even when I press F8 before the computer loads, I can select my
>hard drive but there again, I only get black screen and no boot up... anyone
>got this error??
>
>I upgraded my BIOS to the latest BETA version... I don't know what to do...

What sort of hard drive have you got attached, and what is it attached
TO? (IDE, SATA, SCSI?).

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Are you using SATA or IDE?




On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:02:40 -0500, "Chris Galipeau"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi! I'm having a problem with this motherboard. Everything works fine, I can
>boot up with Floppy and CD-ROM but can't boot on Hard Disk Drive. I know
>that hard drive is working great cause the BIOS detects it, even when I boot
>on Windows XP Install CD I can delete the partition and even install Windows
>XP on it, everything works fine. But as soon as I try to boot the computer
>without floppy or CD-ROM it only gives me a black screen and nothing
>happens... I tried to look in the BIOS in the boot sequence, my hard drive
>is there... even when I press F8 before the computer loads, I can select my
>hard drive but there again, I only get black screen and no boot up... anyone
>got this error??
>
>I upgraded my BIOS to the latest BETA version... I don't know what to do...
>
>Thanks!
>

I've found the solution! I don't know why, but my IDE Hard Drive was booting
with LBA OFF. I had to Low Format the drive and reinstall Windows XP on it,
and now it's LBA Enabled! This is weird, but it works now!!


"Chris Galipeau" <(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
OGZlf.2741$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi! I'm having a problem with this motherboard. Everything works fine, I
> can boot up with Floppy and CD-ROM but can't boot on Hard Disk Drive. I
> know that hard drive is working great cause the BIOS detects it, even when
> I boot on Windows XP Install CD I can delete the partition and even
> install Windows XP on it, everything works fine. But as soon as I try to
> boot the computer without floppy or CD-ROM it only gives me a black screen
> and nothing happens... I tried to look in the BIOS in the boot sequence,
> my hard drive is there... even when I press F8 before the computer loads,
> I can select my hard drive but there again, I only get black screen and no
> boot up... anyone got this error??
>
> I upgraded my BIOS to the latest BETA version... I don't know what to
> do...
>
> Thanks!
>