Alright boys and girls Im stumped. I rebooted my machine last night (there gos my winxp 3 1/2 uptime) and now she wont boot at all. My harddrive is a 250gig SATA drive, Ive resetup everything in the bois about 100 times. Ive googled reconfigured my hardware. Removed hardware, tryd to boot from xp/linux install disks, and tryd to boot a live mini/pcoked linux distro (slax!) the problem is it sees my HDD, it auto detects my hard drive. The drive is set to ide0 master. When it boots it gets past all the bios checks and right when it would eather boot from CD/HDD it reboots. Im stumped, ive beeing doing everything I can to get things back up and running. If you ask what ive done since my last reboot Ive done a million things. Ask me what ever you want but Ive done close to everything I can. I would just reinstall but it wont even boot to CD/DVD. Ive checked out my SATA boot setups and tryd them all. A fellow nerd needs some insite. heh, good thing ive got 6 computers in the house. Thanks in advance for any light you guys can shed on this.