updating ESCD problem

Hey hardware gurus, I got a question. I am building a machine for my son
using some of my old parts. The system parts are the following:
PIII overclocked to 1 Gig
256 Megs of PC150 RAM
ABIT BE6-II Motherboard
Western Digital 10 Gig Harddrive
Geforce GTS video card

I used this system for a while then when I upgraded just let it sit for
awhile. Now I am building it for him and when I try to boot it up it just
sits at:
Updating ESCD....

I have left it for an hour and it just sits there. I have cleared the CMOS,
tried different ribbion cables, clocking the CPU to 700 (normal setting) and
formated the HD using my main machine and it still just sits there. ANY
IDEAS?????

Thanks,
John

did you try putting a bootable floppy and set the bios to boot from it? This is because I have seen this message when there is an HD with bad bootloader was attached to my system
Also try "force update ESCD" option in bios.

Yes I have put in a bootable floopy and changed bios to read it first but when the machine tries to boot up it doen't get that far to boot up from the floopy. Thanks for helping. Any other ideas? Also I had this HD as a slave on another MB using a different chipset and an AMD processor. Any trouble there?

John