XP wont boot unless a bootable CD is present

[Bernie Adams]

I have upgraded a machine from ME to XP Home.
I reformated the partion to NTFS and installed XP Home.
Installation went along without a hitch. XP re-booted a
couple of time during the install.

I checked in the bios to allow the first boot device to be
HDD-0.

When I re-boot the computer, a bootable disk cannot be
found. If I have the ethernet controller turned on, the
machine ends up in the netware boot.

If I leave the XP Home bootable Cd in the CD rom, the
system will stop and ask if I want to boot from the CD
rom. If I let the 'boot from CD' message time out, the
system boots just fine from the HDD.

Any suggestions?

 

[Rich Barry]

Bernie, for the hell of it try setting the first boot device SCSI in the
Bios. See what happens.