Thanks for the suggestion but simply clearing the CMOS via jumper pin will not fix the situation. As noted the computer goes through the post routine and does find the SATA- DVD/CD Drive. There are no manual settings to enter cylinders, heads, and sectors. My recommendation to anybody reading this account is to not waste your hard earned money on XFX motherboards. The only way to reload the BIOS (without having a GUI screen and tools) Is to boot into real mode and then flash-install a new BIOS. This latter practice requires booting into real mode. Seeing the hard drive has one of these newer Microsoft operating systems, well they don't carry the needed software, regardless the legacy systems had supplied the software tools. Since 1995 all Microsoft did was mask over DOS mode, and then eliminated the real mode software, which is needed to address a computer in real mode. I'll have to come with some IBM or related DOS to boot and access the computer. Consider the icon you see on your desktop "My Computer" is no longer your computer it is Microsoft's computer, which is why the operating system is no longer a purchased product but a purchased license. Also you no longer receive a certified operating system disk, what you get is a recovery disk (or a hidden partition) on the hard drive (or both) created with 3rd party software by these computer assemblers like DELL, GATEWAY, HP, etc I call them "assemblers" because they don't build computers they assemble them with discounted parts. Perhaps somebody with XFX 8300 experience has a better way to fix this motherboard problem? Believe me it's not the first XFX board to go tilt...
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