Asus A8V -- WinXP Not Loading -- BIOS NOT INSTALLED!!!!!

[james33440 10+ year member]

Okay, first I was having the trouble of the PC not booting up at all. NOW, I FINALLY got the PC to boot up. I can get into the BIOS settings, I even overclocked it a bit, LOL. However, my WinXP OS will not load up. I recall seeing some words towards the top of the screen about the Fasttrak Controller and another about a Promise Controller can't find the disks and there was no bios installed. I tried disabling the Sata and the Promise feature but it still gives the same error and doesn't boot up.

Also, my CD-RW shows up on the list as it being recognized in the BIOS (as well as my 2 IDE hard drives). However, I can't get my Boot Manager cd nor my WinXP disc to load. I was going to try to reinstall WinXP and reformat the drive....

Any ideas? BTW, here is a list of my setup:

Case: Antec LifeStyle SONATA II

PSU: Antec 450W SmartPower 12V V2.0

Mobo: ASUS A8V DELUXE VIA K8T800 Pro

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice

RAM: CORSAIR 512MB (2x) DDR 400 SDRAM

VGA: ATI Radeon 9700 PRo

Drive: Western Digital 10GB & Seagate 120GB

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[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

hey jmac....get on aim, msn, or yahoo....i have a question for ya

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Just clear the cmos by taking out the battery on the mobo if you cant remember the default settings... maybe try flashing with the newest bios.

 

[james33440 10+ year member]

I ALREADY LOADED THE DEFAULT SETTINGS to no avail. Any suggestions?

 

[james33440 10+ year member]

Well, I got great news! I reformatted the old hard drive and well, since I did that I went ahead and bought my friend's 40GB hard drive for $20. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I am loading WinXP back onto my new PC with all my new hardware.... I can't wait. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif