Can't get my computer to boot from HDD-(Help)

[BH2]

Hi Guys,
I would appreciate some advice please. After reading alot of material I
decided to build a computer. Using an EPox 9NDA3J Board, an AMD Athlon
3500+,
2 GB's of ram. 1x W/Digital IDE 320 gig HDD, 2 x W/Digital 320 gig SATA 2
HDD's, sound card, graphics card etc. Partitioned the Drive and Installed
windows Xp Home,( I made the IDE HDD Master and no Slave device) rebooted
the computer but I can't seem to get it to boot from the HDD with Xp on it,
which I assume is the IDE HDD.
During the initial POST Boot checks The Hdd's are detected as follows:
IDE Chan 0 Master WDC3200JB-OOKPA0
IDE Chan 0 Slave: None
detects both SATA drives as Sata 1 and Sata 2.
Then it gets to verifying DMI pool data, but will not go pas Boot From CD

I have set the BIOS Boot sequence as Follows:
HDD Boot priority is IDE HDD, Sata1, Sata2
CD Rom Priority is CH M DVD Ram Drive, CH S ATAPI CD-R/RW
Boot Sequence is:
1st Boot CDROM
2nd Boot HDD
3rd Boot HDD

And too Boot(sorry about the Pun), I can register windows. Would really
appreciate you help on this guys
Thanks and Regards
Bob

 

[htnakirs]

1. Check if there is any disk in the CD Drive.
2. Change boot sequence to begin with the IDE hard disk with the XP
installed.
3. Try booting after disconnecting the SATA drives.

 

[Mike T.]

Hi Guys,
I would appreciate some advice please. After reading alot of material I
decided to build a computer. Using an EPox 9NDA3J Board, an AMD Athlon
3500+,
2 GB's of ram. 1x W/Digital IDE 320 gig HDD, 2 x W/Digital 320 gig SATA 2
HDD's, sound card, graphics card etc. Partitioned the Drive and Installed
windows Xp Home,( I made the IDE HDD Master and no Slave device) rebooted
the computer but I can't seem to get it to boot from the HDD with Xp on
it, which I assume is the IDE HDD.
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I have set the BIOS Boot sequence as Follows:
HDD Boot priority is IDE HDD, Sata1, Sata2
CD Rom Priority is CH M DVD Ram Drive, CH S ATAPI CD-R/RW
Boot Sequence is:
1st Boot CDROM
2nd Boot HDD
3rd Boot HDD

Try changing your HDD priority to SATA1 first. If that doesn't work, change
it again to SATA2 first. -Dave

 

[NewsHound]

Hi Guys,
I would appreciate some advice please. After reading alot of
material I
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did you set the boot flag on the harddisk partition?

 

[Rod Speed]

did you set the boot flag on the harddisk partition?

Not necessary with 2K when it gets as far as it does.