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

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

first thing you should try is a BIOS reset now. ( CMOS jumper)



did the pc boot windows up before you changed things in the bios?

My PC never booted up with this new hardware.



Any ideas?

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.



I am loading WinXP back onto my new PC with all my new hardware.... I can't wait.