No drive attached to fast track controller

[Ghidrah]

I posted earlier this eve about getting the Must reactivate XP because of substantial system changes.
Well I also now have a new error popping up at boot, I get this message.

" No drive attached to fast track controller, the bios is not installed"

When I check Device manager, I note that SCSI and Raid controller has a sub item that says "Win XP Promise sata 378 (tm) IDE controller has an exclamation point.
When I click properties, I see "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" I never noticed this SCSI and Raid controller item before tonight

I'm not using a raid set up, I have 2 HDDs on IDE1, and I have a DVD/CD burner and DVD/CD player on IDE2.
I also have a USB external drive.
Is this a motherboard error or something else? I have a OS clone on the external drive as a back up.
I tried using the win XP CD and I also tried the Asus motherboard set up CD, but the hardware prog keeps asking for the hardware CD.
any help will be greatly appreciated

[glc]

You need to turn the controller off in the bios if you don't have anything connected to it. It sounds like your bios may have reset itself, possibly due to a weak motherboard battery (or did you perhaps use the clear cmos jumper?).

[Ghidrah]

No sir I don't have anything attached. One thing I didn't point out in the prior post, is that after I reactivated XP, I D/L'd 2 security updates (non sp2) from the widows update site. After rebooting, (didn't sit and watch the loading sequence to desktop) I roamed the net for a while and shut down. Later in the evening, as I booted up, I noticed the message.
I suppose it might be the battery, although everything directly connected to the board, cpu, agp, ram almost everything in the case is just over a year old build date 8/6/03. I'll check out the setup and see what's up there, thanks for the info!
PS, I didn't mess with the jumpers either.

[Ghidrah]

Thanks glc that solved the prob. I tend to stay away from set-up once I got it running out of the MB manual, I'm sure no one else in the house would know how to get into set-up let alone mess around in there. So, I wonder what could have caused it to happen. I'm sure it couldn't be a voltage spike, I have the APC XS1000 providing protection and have the voltage settings trimmed down from the defaults. If it is the cmos batt, I should expect odd behavior to keep cropping up.

[flanzig1]

If the battery is going bad, what you will see is the computer clock showing incorrect time or losing time.

[Ghidrah]

Then it can't be the battery, the time is on track with the National Weather Channel.