boot up two different drives

[thomsign]

I've got problems on booting up, sometimes BIOs ask to boot up from cd-rom and a startup disk. Other times it boots normal from C drive. Bios first boot is a floopy, second boot is HDD-0, third boot is CD-ROM. If I enter the second boot I see several options: floppy, HDD-0,CD-ROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3. Currently it is set to default HDD-0. This is an Awards BIO running a AMD Athlon 1 GB, HD-30 GB Maxtor UDMA 7200 RPM, AOpen PA256MX GeForce2 32MB Video board, Pioneer DVD drive, OS- ME

What setting should I use or is this my problem?
Thanks

[Floppyman]

Hi thomsign,

Are all the jumpers on the back of the IDE devices and the cables installed/configured properly? What kind of IDE cables (80 pin or 40pin) are you using, and how do you have your IDE devices setup (i.e. which is slave/master etc.)? One other thing I can think of: Have you tried clearing the CMOS? HTH

[thomsign]

Hi Floppyman
I failed to mention in my first statement that I had just installed a Intel Wireless mouse, keyboard and gamepad. I just removed the Intel wireless system and my computer start up normally. Do you or does anyone else have any suggestion as to what can solve the problem caused by this installation. I did not reinstall this system a second time to see if this was the cause.

When the first screen starts it indicates that the primary is the HDD and then the CDROM and also there is a 80 pin cable installed.

Thanks for your interest.
Thomsign