I upgraded my desktop with a new cpu, motherboard, DVD-RW, video card, wi-fi, and ram. I didn't upgrade my hard drive. Did that last year. It is a Western Digital 200GB. I went from a Pentium cpu to a AMD. I am having problem getting past the boot up. I am able to access BIOS set up but no further. Once it passes that the next screen reads "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" I have tried to re-arrange the boot devices every way. I have also tried to boot from XP disk. Got any ideals?My ideal is to become the difinitive source of all computer knowledge. But my idea is that you NEED to set BIOS to boot from hard disk first. Check that; it's probably set to CD or some nonsense. Not your fault...

And sorry for giving you such a hard time. Thanks for the advice. I have tried CONFIG all of them in different order. Hasn't worked.What about the jumpers? Is the drive set to Master?I have check all that and they are all set to where they need to be. Just to cover the OBVIOUS: All IDE cables are connected, right? and the power? (Only reason I ask is because when I built my comp it wouldn't find my hard drive. Turned out to be a loose IDE. )

To cover the less obvious: What is your hardware setup? What all is promary master, promary SLAVE, secondary master, etc...Thanks for the help. I ended up just running an IDE cable to the DVD and A seperate to the hard drive. that worked Again thanks for the help.Hey, no problem. Post again when/if you ever have another computer problem. just check all the IDE or maybe ur jumper of ur hardrive...pls be patient about the slave and masters of the hardrive you CONNECT....or use other IDE cables for sure....PAS (Problem Already Solved)