My main disk system is a Raid0 on normal IDEs. After installing a SATA/IDE adapter onto an ordinary IDE Hard Drvie I get the following Boot Up message before it dies. If I disconnect the Sata adapter and disable it in the Bios everything resovles itself. Any Ideas?? Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . . . . . . . . Boot from CD : NVIDIA Boot Agent, PXE-2.0 Build... Etc... Copyright (C) 2001 NVIDIA Corporation Copyright (C) etc.. etc... CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 20 ED 8F 22 8C GUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF DCHP...... / PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent. DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

I have the same problem with my MSI K7N2-L Delta, but I only get this the first time I boot up for the day, which is kind of strange, but I just reboot as soon as my bios loads and it loads into windows the second time around. Messing around I've found that it happens about every other boot up, maybe bad programming on the boot order.

I think I've found the solution. I set the boot up order in the Bios to SATA and it boots up perfectly. Previously it was set as SCSI , as instructed in the Motherboard manual as being necessary when running Raid on the IDE's (which I am). By doing this you see the SIS SATA bios load and then the RAID drivers. I'm suprised by this as the SATA disk does not contain the O/S it is just plain data. The O/S is on the Raid IDE array. I can only assume the Motherboard always looks at SATA disks first whenever there is one connected and unless you specify this in the Bios boot order it doesn't recognise it. (The first boot device, rather than 'boot order', is still set at SCSI however).