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BIOS displays the following two lines upon hard reboot (i.e., cold reboot, cold boot, or cold start):

The following configuration options were automatically updated:
CD-ROM: HL-DT-ST R/W/DVD GCC-4481B
No IDE Fixed Disk Present
F1: Save Changes

After selecting F1, the system soft reboots (i.e., warm reboots), then displays the following:

The following configuration options were automatically updated:
Disk: 40.0 GB MAXTOR 6E040L0
CD-ROM: HL-DT-ST R/W/DVD GCC-4481B
If you are running UNIX you need to configure your system using the computer setup utility f10
F1: Save Changes

After selecting F1, the system soft reboots again.

This time, Microsoft Windows XP loads successfully without any BIOS errors.

So, my client discovered a work-around, but how may I correct this issue so the system hard boots and identifies the hard drive?

HP Compaq dc5000 Microtower PC (2004) running Microsoft Windows XP, 2.5GB RAM, 3.0GHz processor.

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I discovered two solutions to this issue:

  1. Enter BIOS Setup (F10), then select "Advanced (advanced users only)" > "Power On Options" and set option "Enable/disable POST delay (for slow hard drives)" to five seconds

  2. Enter BIOS Setup (F10), then select "Advanced (advanced users only)" > "Power On Options" and change option "Select POST Mode" from QuickBoot to FullBoot

Root cause: the BIOS seems to execute POST before the hard drive becomes recognizable to the system.

The former case (POST delay of five seconds) seems like the best option, since FullBoot seems to take several minutes to check the RAM.

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