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Boot troubles

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Mekanic01

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Not sure if this is a mobo issue, or a WinXP issue, but maybe somebody can help me.

XP will not load by itself from the hard drive, and I have to have the XP disk in the cd drive with the BIOS set to read the cd as a boot device first. It goes through the normal routine, asks if I want to boot from cd, I let it run without and then it will load from the hard drive. But if I switch to hdd load first, it won't load.

Specs
EPoX 8RDA3+ Mobo Rev 2.1
WD 80Gig SE
Lite-On 52X32X52 CD/RW
GF FX5200
2x 512Mb DDR Geil Value
AMD Barton 2500+ OC'd to 2.2g
Win XP Home (Not activated yet, but will be if this problem is fixable)


Is it because XP isn't activated yet? Because then no problem, I'll just activate it. I just don't want to use an OS that requires the disk in the drive to load, if I did I'd run Knoppix.

Also, for those of you with this board, is there a way to shut off the SATA/RAID to speed up boot times? It takes about 3 times longer to boot than it did with my 8RDA+.

Thanks guys.
 
If this is a new build make sure to re-install windows, it really doesnt hurt and can avoid a lot of issues. If its not a reinstall try a repair install, maybe that would work.


Ive seen this problem a few times, maybe a handful, in each cause re-installing saved more headaches than pulling my hair out over it.
 
Fixboot took care of it, hopefully for good. I'm pretty sure I tried it before, but I could be wrong.


Anything on the SATA/RAID?
 
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