K8T Neo2 .. Posts, but won't boot the operating system

Hi Folks,
  New here. I've got a good one which I may have caused by experimenting with Dynamic overclocking at various levels.
After a normal Post, and noting that all 4 diagnostic leds are lit ( operating system booting ), the screen just goes blank.
- Reset CMOS and Dos Flashed the BIOS to 3.3 ( K8T Neo - F ) to no avail.
The other kicker is that if I try booting from the DVD (IDE Master) drive with an XP OS disk,  After "press any key to boot from CD"  followed by " Inspecting system configuration" .. or something like that ... again ... the screen goes blank.  Dat's it.    Any Ideas ??   Ugh.
Here's my machine:
[Athlon64 3500 90nm (Winchester)
K8T Neo2 - F  ('64 Socket 939)
1Gb OCZ 500mhz DDR ( this is overkill for this board ... live and learn )
Evga 6800GT
One SATA Seagate 120GB Hard Drive
ASUS DVD Writer
LiteOn Combo DVD/CDRW
LiteOn DVD
Generic 6 in 1 Floppy Drive
Rosewill 500W PSU
Generic? Winmodem

Fafner,
   Ok. Here's the scoop. Before reading your last reply ( also I already tried another SATA cable ), I left the SATA enabled in the BIOS, but disconnected the SATA cable from the SATA Drive. Sure enough, the XP Setup flies through all the way untill the ' Install or ' R ' recover ' option screen is displayed.  The only other time I got this far was when I disabled the SATA controller in the BIOS.  So now, again, with this controller enabled, but the Drive cable disconnected from the Drive, Setup goes as far as it can.  Sounds like I somehow fried the SATA Drive .. eh ?   
mdak

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