This is friggin WEIRD.

[MAXX RS4]

Lately I've been having a problem with my WinXP. When I restart my computer, I get SYSTEM DISK errors.

If I put in the XP cd, it goes through with the installation crap. That's normal. But, if I put in say a flash card into my reader or a zip into the drive so I get the invalid disk error, I can remove that and hit enter and so long as the XP cd is in, the comp will boot up normally.

It's kind of annoying because to successfully reboot, I HAVE to have the cd in, plus something to give myself the invalid disk error.

This is the second time it's happened to me, and hte first time I just reinstalled xp and it went away until about 3 weeks later, starting yesterday.

Everything is setup correctly in bios as far as boot sequences go too.. Any suggestions or tips or something?

 

[XOR != OR]

Check your harddrive, motherboard, memory and power supply. In that order.

Although if it were a powersupply problem, it'd be really odd.

 

[MAXX RS4]

Check them how?

 

[XOR != OR]

Go to the HD manufacture's web site, they should have utilities to check a drive. There are various places to get memtest for your memory. I'm not sure how to do the mobo, and I just check the values of the power supply in the bios ( +-5 volt line, ect... )