will only boot from cd

ok here was my original problem------>

http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=20636

I bought another harddrive and did a fresh install of Win XP pro using my Recovery CD-Rom aka Windows XP Professional System CD this did a great job with a fresh install but now it will only boot up with this cd in the drive

in startup it says----->
Verifying DMI Pool...........
Boot from Atapi CD-Rom
press any key to boot from cd

I dont press anything but without this cd in the drive it will not boot and goes to a load system failure, please insert boot disc and press enter

any help on how to load normally?

Also now that I can put my other harddrive in slave position to scan it for virus is there a right or wrong way to do this?

p.s. After fresh Install the 1st thing I installed was Norton anti-virus this was all done b4 connecting to internet as soon as i restarted when connected to internet up popped 2 viruses
w32.mblast.worm & w32.welchia.worm thank god for norton

 

doesnt any body know why ?

 

what's your bios boot order say?
and you should IMMEDIATELY update windows with ALL of the security patches.

 

im with kodo on this one check your bios and make sure you put your hdd as first boot device

 

This may sound dumb but when I flashed the bios, I went from a bios date of 9-26-2001 which is what was on it when I got it to 4-17-2002


BIOS Revision History

Bios name Remarks
AK31S2E8 Date code: 09/13/2001 checksum: 21EEh
Initial Bios for AK31 V3.1

AK31S2E9 Date code: 09/26/2001 checksum: EF55h
Support Athlon XP CPU

AK31S2EA Date code: 11/30/2001 checksum: 1500
Patch nVidia Geforce 3 VGA driver issue when AGP aperture size select 64M.

AK31S2EC Date code: 12/06/2001 checksum: 1D00
1. Add full_screen_logo function
2. CPU clock is 100MHz if load optimized defaults.

AK31S2EE Date code: 12/19/2001 checksum: 9A00
1. Fixed "SmallSun" USB keyboard caused system to hang up.
2. Fixed 3% system auto on after clear cmos and plug back power cord
3. EPA Logo default enabled

AK31S2EF Date code: 01/04/2002 checksum: 4B00
Support AthlonXP 2000+

AK31S2EH Date code: 03/02/2002 checksum: 2300
1.Support HDD larger then 137GB capacity
2.Support Athlon XP 2100+ .
3.Update K7 CPU Model Number
4.Don't need to check warm boot flag before calling

AK31S2EI Date code: 04/17/2002 checksum: 4400
1.FSB frequency default to 100MHz.
2.Fixed parts of CPU sign on message error.
3.Change default year from 2001 to 2002.

As you can see there are many in between am I to assume that the latest bios date included all previous updates and fixes or should I have flashed them all?

and thanx to all who replied!!!