Motherboard won't let me boot from disk. How do I change it?

I've been having a lot of computer problems and replacing the motherboard seemed to fix it. However, in one attempt to weed out a suspected software problem, a friend of mine booted a pirated version of XP. Naturally, when I found out that it was a hardware issue, I wanted to reboot my original operating system, but when the computer starts it goes to the motherboard's main screen instead of booting from the disk. How do I fix that?Motherboard won't let me boot from disk. How do I change it?
The ';motherboard's main screen?'; I assume that you mean either the bios screen or a so-called ';splash screen'; that contains an ad for the motherboard?



What you need to do is to set up the motherboard bios. First of all, you hit F8 repeatedly while the computer is booting up. That should take you the the bios screen where you can start changing the cmos settings. You have to make sure that the computer is set to boot to your hard drive by default. You should also disable the irritating splash screen. You need to go through all of the settings and pick the right ones for your hardware configuration. Then do a ';save and exit'; and reboot. It should boot to your hard drive. When you can get it to do that, then you want to load the drivers for your motherboard from the driver disk that came with it.



Then, you might have to work with it a bit before you get it set exactly right. Patience.Motherboard won't let me boot from disk. How do I change it?
to really be able to help you.... I need the model number of the mobo