KT6V SLR Drives detected, won't boot

The Battery on my KT6V SLR went causing all my settings to go, i replaced the battery and did the settings best i can.
The problem is it will not boot my HDD or Dvd Drive. The Drives are being detected in the bios screen but it will not boot them.
I changed the boot order, disabled the Sata connection thingy (i have a master and slave on both ide channels).
But still nothing, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
KT6V SLR
AMD Athlon 2400
1024 Ram
MX440 8 AGP
Windows XP Home Sp3.

I agree, but it's impossible to tell without getting the right information.
In my honest opinion he should get help from somebody that can actually see his situation.
The topic started referred to non-booting, but in fact the system does boot.
I believe his windows installation is damaged somehow, could be the harddisk, but I do not believe the topic starter has enough knowledge to solve this without help from a person next to him.
Therefor I recommend he should see a PC-wizard that can see his system.
There is so much we can do, up to a point.

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