hello. maybe someone knows what is going on. i installed a 2nd hard drive and now my homemade PC has a boot issue. upon 1st hard power-on and then soft power-on, it gets through post, but then a black screen instead of XP pro. i then have to hard power off. heres the strange part: i can then turn the PC on and boot Just Fine! (after selecting "start windows normally") the new drive is: Samsung HD753LJ 750GB SATA2 7200rpm 32mb HARD DRIVE. it is auto going to secondary slave. my main HD is the secondary master (IDE). there is no primary anything. i have formatted and used the drive already in windows when it boots. the mainboard is: MSI K8N Neo with a AMD athalon 3000+ -no overclocking to my knowledge. during the 1st attempt at boot , if i try to enter BIOS. something in the pc makes a crazy buzzing. then the whole thing freezes during IDE detection. also during the 1st attempt at boot, once frozen, soft power button may not work. and soft resets do not cause the PC to boot porperly. only HARD power-off and then on.