OK here goes, this is strange. First, In the mornings when I go to turn on my computer it takes several attempts of reset button and shut off holding the power button to get it to start. This can go on for anything of upto 10 minutes and then all of a sudden I get the safe mode or normal selection to start windows, I select normal and from there on in it's fine till the next morning when I have to go through it all over again. Second, I install all my games and programs on a second hard drive (I have 6 install 4 sata 2 ide, I do video conversions and fraps my ingame play) at intermitant times a hard drive stops being seen by windows. This is really annoying when I am playing on line and all of a sudden with no warning at all the game freezes because it has lost the hard drive that the game is installed on. Third, I have just upgraded to Vista HP OEM from XP Pro OEM (both 32 bit, remember that, 32 bit OS) but for some little bizzare reason Vista 32 bit recognizes ALL 4 GIG OF RAM... I though only the 64 bit was meant to do that.. ? Any ideas would be good. Here are the sys specs AMD 6000+ Cordair 800 MHz (4 GB) GA-MA78G-DS3H Mobo 1 x 80 & 1 x 260 IDE HDD's 2 x 80 & 2 x 120 SATA HDD's xFx 8800 GTS 640 MB 750 Watt thermaltake PSU LG SATA DVD Burner WinFast DTV2000 H Canon iP3000 printer Thermaltake Soprano case Other but probably not important but just incase 24" LG L246WH Monitor 19" ACER P191W ( not always pluged in though) Logitech speakers Microsoft LX3000 Headphones G15 G9 Extreme 3D Pro joystick

PSUs with multiplier +12v rails can be tricky to setup. Make sure your devices are evenly distributed across the rails

What, where, when, why and how lol No idea what ya mean sorry.

Is the drive that's not being shown the same one all the time? Why not just leave the computer powered on? And, why are you complaining that all the memory is being acknowledged? :) Life's more painless for the brainless.

Your PSU uses the multi +12v design meaning that it has several +12v rails (+12v1, +12v2, +12v3, +12v4) each rated at 18A. With that CPU, video card & all those drives, you have a hefty draw on the +12v. It's important that you have the loading distributed across all four +12v rails rather than having it concentrated on just a couple of them.

I agree with Jam. The hard drive dropping out sure sounds like a power problem.

OK that makes sense so short of leaving it on all the time how do I fix it Not complaining bout the RAM believe me just find it amusing ;)