MOBO Help!

[Untouchable]

I am having a problem with my Asus P4b533 motherboard. When I boot the computer I receive a message that says "Cannot Detect D1 D2 D3" the computer will hang for a few minutes but then would proceed to boot. Then I noticed if I went into the BIOS to change my boot sequence, every time I wanted to move left or right through the menus with the arrow keys, it would freeze. Now it will not boot at all, when trying to boot it stops on some system file 540 or something. So I figured then it may have been a virus causing all these problems so I tried format the HD, When I try to boot from my Windows XP PRO disc I get the message that says "Boot from CD No Emulation" The system will then hang for a bit but eventually let me delete and create partitions and format but will not let me set up Windows, it just keeps telling me That I am unable to load multiple operating systems on one partition, please help!

[mander]

You could try formatting with a Windows 98 bootdisk. Run fdisk first and delete all partitions. Recreate a new partition, reboot then run format/u. Reboot into the bios and change it to boot from cd and the install should go fine. 98 bootdisk is available from www.bootdisk.com

Let us know if that works.

[Ken_ver_1_5]

I have the same board it sounds like you may have a memory problem.
could also be a timing setting in the bios. you may have a weak battery.

as mentioned above try to boot from floppy and test memory.
also check the bios settings.

[Untouchable]

thanks for the replies,
the hd i was trying to format was a spare so that i could hook up the original as secondary to recover some files, having said that, i hooked the original back up and tried to boot in safe mode, it stopped on the file agp440.sys. I disabled that file as per microsoft help now it stops on mup.sys, isn't that the file that corrupts when when you've been hit by a power surge?

[Ken_ver_1_5]

best I can say is you'll need to replace mup.sys with a known good copy.

[AMD]

Why did you try to format?

If an error message is displayed by the BIOS, it has absolutely nothing to do with the operating system.