Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI DISK BOOT FAILURE

[gazzy]

I posted this in a different section but I might aswell use the resources available to me!

Im sure it's something silly aswell.
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Hey guys. i just put my new machine togethor and i am having a few problems. I have bought an intel e4300, Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI and 2 gig RAM to go with my existing SATA and IDE hard disks, DVD drives.

I booted from CD, performed a full format on my existing SATA hard disk that was running XP. Windows installed fine and i installed drivers from the Abit CD then when i restart my machine I get DISK BOOT FAILURE MESSAGE.

I have check my boot priority in the bios and i cant work out what the problem is. I have arranged the priority exactly how i had it on my old nforce 4 board but i keep getting the error.

my current priority is

1) CD
2) samsung HDD (XP installation) sata
3) western digital (just storage) sata
4) maxtor (just storage) ide


Any help gratefully recieved.

I wanna get gaming!!!

cheers

g

[BUFF]

try installing XP without the IDE drive connected.
XP has a habit of putting some necessary files onto the IDE drive even when it's not the boot drive ...

[gazzy]

hi. thanks for reply. That was the problem. I really should of remembered that from the last time i installed xp.

Now. to put this board through it's paces.