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I am trying to get my old desktop set up as an HTPC but have run in to problem. The computer was built by my brother-in-law in 2005 and is running xp. I'm getting a black screen with the blinking cursor after the initial "press del to enter setup" scree, but only when the secondary HDD is installed. I recently reinstalled xp, but got annoyed/"is it even worth it" trying to get it connected to the network, etc etc...so I decided to take the second drive out in order to use it as an external drive on my laptop. So when I finally made my way back to the desktop to get it ready to go, the second drive was not installed. I made a lot of software changes (drivers, win updates, program installations) but no hardware changes. The PC was booting/working fine, then I realized that I still needed to put the other drive back in. So I put it in there and it won't boot up properly. No changes were made to the drive while it was out and everything was working fine when I first reinstalled xp. The drive is connected in the same location as it was before. I can enter BIOS and the drive is there, but it won't let me boot from CD. Everything works perfectly if I remove the second drive.
Thanks in advance for any advice! (Please excuse typos, one handed on a smart phoning with a wiggly baby in tow.)

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Okay, I figured it out. Stupid mistake on my part. I didn't realize that the secondary drive was set to boot before the primary in BIOS... Didn't even really check, doi. It works now

[bugglezz]

Okay, I figured it out. Stupid mistake on my part. I didn't realize that the secondary drive was set to boot before the primary in BIOS... Didn't even really check, doi. It works now

[phillpower2]

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Glad you got it sorted and thanks for posting how the issue was resolved