Quote Originally Posted by eddievanzant
I actually checked online because my manual felt a bit light, and the general manual for the series of mobos is twice as big as the one mine came with, so I kicked the wall. It is not a problem with the BIOS. I've set it to fail-safe defaults, optimized defaults, my defaults, and gone through everything on tomshardware that said could be interrupting the starup. It's not the BIOS. The BIOS detects my HDD and is actually the best BIOS I've ever used (the reason why I bought DFI).
If you insist on doing something,go to the micrsoft site and get xp recovery disks and do a "fixboot"... You may be able to boot into dos... If you can't find the boot disks I think I have a set ...