I really don't think that is it because the other HD and DVD were Sata and they wouldn't boot from a CD. The Sata HD is the one with Vista on it. I would rather change back to Sata and work from there. I always put the HD in Sata O and the DVD in 1. I bought ATA DVD and ATA HD to replace bad ones on old computers that the family have. They were only put in to check if I could make it work with different drives. So I am going to put the Sata DVD back in and the Sata 160 GB HD back in.There was no mention up til now there were also SATA drives involved...
So i'm thoroughly confused again.
Go back to the original setup and give it a go.
SATA0 for HDD and SATA1 for DVD should be fine.I will make the change and let you know what happens. As I said before it didn't work before and that is why I used the IDE. Sorry I didn't EXPLAIN every thing. Thanks for all the help.Well I got it all hooked back up and it did the same thing. I did FIND a fix. If you hit the F10 key on boot it gives you a choice of booting from each drive. I did that and it worked. In fact I have SPENT the past 24 hours up dating vista and the virus PROTECTION. Every thing is working well. The problem seemed that on start up the DVD wasn't on long enough for the CD to load. By hitting the F10 key the prompt only allowed the DVD to boot. It was like the HD wasn't hooked up. Any way all is well now. Thank you very MUCH for your time and patience.I think I know why the HD came on so quick. I found in Bios Hard Disk Pre- Delay set to 0. I would say that is for a quick boot. I have no idea what it should be set at for it to boot to a CD.