evga 680i boot failures

[BoxRipper]

Let me preface this by saying that I've updated to the newest bios (P23) and
have already reformated and installed windows twice.

When I first turn it on it says it's searching for IDE drives, and after
about 30 seconds comes up with my HD and tells me "Floppy disk(s) fail (40)"
which I don't have plugged in because I'm trying to narrow things down, and
then it tells me to hit F1 to continue or DEL to enter setup (which is odd,
but I hit F1 for the sake of continuing). After I hit F1 it says it's
"Verifying DMI Pool Data" and then it will either give me a "Disk boot
failure, insert system disk and press enter" which if I do it will just give
me the same error again everytime. But sometimes it will say something about
mac address and then displays DHCP and has a thing blinking like it's
searching, which eventually fails and on the next try it says "PXE-E61: Media
Test Failure, check cable" which i assume is my network cable. After about
three tries at doing that it tells me "Disk boot failure, insert system disk
and press enter" which I do and it fails and tells me to do it again and so
on and so on.

I've already tried changing my boot sequences and disabling my CDROM etc etc

EVGA 680i 122-CK-NF68-AR
Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
XFX GeForce 7900GS
650W Antec Trio
200GB ATA133 HD

 

[peter]

To me it sounds like one of two things
...its not the right HD listed in the Boot Order...........check your BIOS to
make sure its not looking for a SATA drive and stops looking when it does
not find one.........in the boot order the HD with the OS should be at least
listed.

You've lost the boot sector of your HD and therefore your getting that
"disk boot Failure" message
A XP repair install should take care of it.

peter

 

[peter]

Forgot that usingt he fixboot and
fixmbr commands from the recovery console on the XP CD would also solve the
problem without a repair installation

peter

 

[BoxRipper via WindowsKB.com]

Ok, solved my own problem, I reseated all my cables, cards, etc. and then I
went into BIOS set my HDD to first boot, turned everything else off. Seems to
have done it.