ASUS A7N8X-VM/400 doesn't boot on Hard Drive

[Chris Galipeau]

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!

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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?).

 

[Virtue]

Are you using SATA or IDE?

 

[Chris Galipeau]

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!!