ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[xdrift0rx]

If the MOTHERBOARD DISK BOOTS THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BOARD!!!!!! PERIOD so let not discuss this anymore shall we.
There is NO BIOS OPTION to enable, ASUS comfirmed this as you know.
Unless you did not call, but then again I did so yes Asus has confirmed this.
Your problem is your CD, so beg borrow steal or buy yourself a new copy of XP64 and move on.

then what is the problem? im his friend and ive been trying to help him through this. i have sent him my XP64bit disk. (i have found another one and verified that it works also check my sig for my pc specs...) what else could be causing this to not work? the only thing i can think of is a jumper on the board that might have been put in the wrong place.

and what does the "motherboard disk" have to do with anything?

also to clear this up here is the error he gets when he pops in a XP64bit disk:


this is vista.




when i pop in the same disk, i get a welcome screen from the disk after it spins up.

so what could it be?