Hi all I need your help. I have just started to have this problem with my computer, when I shut it off sometimes it wont see my hard drive on reboot. It doesnt see any of my drives. after rebooting several times it will see them and start normally. I'm not shore what is going on. It only did it about once every 20 boots but now its doing it almost every time. My mobo is an Ecs 848P-A with the latest bios update. Nothing has changed on the computer, no new hardware or anything. My hard drive is about 3 years old and seems to be running fine(no losing files or anything) This has just been driveing me nuts. One other thing it just started to do was after long time of inactivity I will hear a snap and the HD light will come on solid and the computer will lock up. It hasent done that for over a couple of weeks. what do you think bad mobo, processor, HD, or software? any ideas?

In my opinion, you need a new hard drive. I believe in the Big Bang. God said it, and BANG it happened!

sounds like a faulty hard drive to me. even if it is not losing data, it could still be failed or failing. what are all the drives you have in the system, what type of connections are they using, and what is channeled with what? The things that come to those that wait may be the things left behind by those who got there first.

Hi all I have IDE120 gig maxtor and a BenQ Black 16X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW DVD BurnerATA. Both are masters on diffrent IDE cables. Temps in the case are fine if not running a little cool(cpu=118F HD=81F thats after 2 days of non stop running) I was thinking about running the ulimate boot disk and checking the drive. But the board isnt seeing the DVD eather when this happens. Brian

try new cables. then maybe try resetting the BIOS. if all else fails mobo is bad. The things that come to those that wait may be the things left behind by those who got there first.

I would have to also suspect the main hard drive. But you could try looking in the bios for an option to disable 'Fast boot' and try that. It could be that the hard drive is just slow to come up to speed and become ready.