First post, by cde
I am having this aforementioned error message when trying to start anything on the hard drive, the MBR is not read and executed. This issue happens with two motherboards, Abit VH6 and VH6-II, updated with the latest BIOS and also recapped.
I initially thought it was due to the mSATA to IDE 128 GB SSD I'm using, however even with a classic hard drive, even when limited to 32 GB, does not work. Switching the modes between normal (CHS), large (LRG) and LBA does nothing.
What is really puzzling is that if I let the Windows XP CD-ROM inside, it prints the message to Press any key, then after a while defaults to load the OS - and it works perfectly fine! Windows XP starts without issue. Without the CD, I get DISK BOOT FAILURE.
Does this problem seem familiar?