Ok, in BIOS the only SATA setting that is there is "SATA Spread Spectrum" and it is disabled. Other than disable, there is "Triangular Down" And that setting is listed under "Advanced Chipset Features"
I managed to get it booted using the XP disc, with the "Repair" option. After this was complete, the computer restarted and booted into windows. I thought i had solved the problem, until once in windows, i restarted, and had the same original problem;
"IDE Channel 0: Master Cd-Rom"
"IDE Channel 0: Slave DVD-Rom" (Both roms are IDE)
"Detecting IDE Drives..." then it hangs for a minute
"IDE Channel 2: Master 160 GB" (XP Pro)
"IDE Channel 3: Master 80 GB" (Both HDDs are SATA)
then,
"Verifying DMI Pool Data......." then it hangs for minute and starts the...
"NVIDIA Boot Agent"
then,
"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable"
"PXE-MOF: Exiting Boot Agent"
It does this twice, and then:
"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
That is as far as it will go. If i enable RAID in the BIOS, on startup it will load both roms, then go to "Detecting Array..." and then starts the boot agent again. What am i doing wrong here??? I'm sooo frustrated!!!!!!