P6N SLI FI boot problems

Before I start just want to let you know that I'm a little pissed off so forgive me if I leave some details out. Ok, I have two hard drives, 250gb sata with XP and a 80gb with Vista. I rarely use my Vista HDD, I mostly use it just to check on vista stuff. I tried to get on it (changed it to first in the boot sequence) and it won't get on it, it just goes straight to XP. I was like oh well, thats just a problem with Vista. So i reinstall Vista, boots great everything is peachy. But then when I try to go back to XP, well what do you know, its doing what it did to me before, wont let me get onto XP. I have tried completely unhooking the 80gb and it says there is no boot device bla bla bla. I don't know what to try now, short of doing something with the bios (updating or flashing.) I'm probably going to do that now but I was hoping someone on here could help me.
Thanks,
Nick

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 15-August-07, 15:20:15
read Moan Guide and provide full system specification.
"I have two hard drives, 250gb sata with XP and a 80gb with Vista"
"I have tried completely unhooking the 80gb and it says there is no boot device bla bla bla"
"I also tried to force it to boot from my sata (pressed f11 and chose it) and it still didn't work."
ensure that you have active partition on that HDD.
Ok I'm running....
Core 2 Duo e6600 @3ghz
2gb DDR2 Memory
8800gts 320mb OC Edition
P6N SLI-FI
80gb Western Digital IDE HDD (Back up)
250gb Western Digital Sata HDD 16mb Cache 7200rpm SATA 300
Yes there is a partition and a OS on it. I can access files on it through Vista on my 80gb HDD, well after the annoying task of getting permission for everything. I was just booting from it before I installed Vista again so I know its nothing wrong with that. I know if I reinstall XP again it will let me boot from it but I don't feel like having to reinstall the OS everytime I want to switch HDDs.
Pressing f11 at the post screen gives me a list of my storage devices to boot from and that still doesn't let me. I know the XP is fine, it just won't let me on it.

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I had my two sticks of RAM in DIMM 1 and DIMM 3 as the manual said. I then took these out and put them in DIMM 2 and 4. Works perfectly now.
Damn MSI's memory slot color-coding! ...
Ok, just so we're all talking about the same thing, when I look at my (Platinum version) manual, on page 2-7, it's titled "Memory" at the top and has images below there showing 3 alternate configurations for memory. If you look closely at the lables on the right-hand side of the images, the slots are labeled:
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Quote from: bobak2000 on 03-March-07, 10:04:31
I don't seem to be hearing anything positive about this motherboard to be fair.
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Quote from: Maesus on 12-June-06, 20:45:38
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Quote from: Terje on 18-April-07, 19:00:05
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