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I seriously think your problem is your hard drive is either not configured correctly and the BIOS has no other option but to try booting to a network connection through your modem or Ethernet card.

In your BIOS setup utility, there has to be a boot order, there might be a choice of several boot options, depending on if SATA is used or PATA E-IDE.

If the BIOS does not find a bootable drive it moves onto the next device, then the next till it finds your NIC and then looks for a server to connect to, since there is none it throws an error.

I can not find a copy of how your BIOS menus are set up, other-wise I could see, where you need to go and how to change things.

But there should be something at the menus that says BOOT.

Make sure your hard drive is configured correctly in the BIOSes hard ware section, then make sure it is selected as the first BOOT device.

This post has been edited by MrBruce1959: 22 May 2010 - 03:57 PM

Also you never said what your hard drive is, its either SATA or PATA/E-IDE, please tell us so we know what type of configuration your drive might have.

i just looked at the hard drive and it is a ATA/IDE 40.00GB

lpdacks, on May 22 2010, 05:12 PM, said:

Okay, next question is do you have the IDE ribbon wire attached to the motherboard on the primary IDE 0 port? (Some boards use IDE 1 as the primary port)

Do you have another device hooked up to the same ribbon wire? If so, do you have one device configured as a master and the other configured as a slave? (This is configured on the drives jumper settings)

In your BIOS your ATA/IDE hard drive should be configured as the Primary Channel Master and its disk information auto-detected by the BIOS.