lost drive

[nuggies]

wondered if anyone can help.my system is..
m810lmr motherboard
t bird chipset
amd 1 gig processor
256k ram
my computer went down ,tried t re boot ,but it said it needed a floppy,which i thought strange,went into bios,and the hard drive wasnt recognised in there,pressed f3 ,it found it ,rebooted,and ok again.what i want to know is why this occured,and is there a underlying problem somewhere.
i am running xo pro.

 

[Tbird94sc]

ive had that problem too as weel both on the ide controller no the mobo and my ata controller. it only happes sporadically and if i just restart they come back. worst case scenario i open the computer and jiggle the cables and everything is ok. i changed the ps, the ide cables, still to no avail. still got same problem. its rather annoying but only happens in like 1 o every 20 boots or so. i just leave computer running 24-7 now. it solved the prob, lol 😀 😀 😀

 

[Zedric]

Why didn't you tell us what drive you have? The drive could be dying if this is a new problem. Heard any strange sounds from it lately?

 

[nuggies]

thats the first thing i thought of,but no strange noises coming from it...added a second hard drive recently...

 

[Reg]

This is a problem on machines that have Award Bios who's machine didn't quite shutdown properly (even though it could have went through and shut down). The problem comes in when the bios detects Windows XP as a PnP authority and shuts down the system on kill command rather waiting for Power Down command. I've noticed this to be a problem on single HD pin HD's such as Fujitsu and Samsung. If this continues to happen, try updating your BIOS. If you update your BIOS and this still happens, change to a double HD pin HD such as Maxtor. In the long run, if this continues to happen, you will have HD failure.

 

[Lithium]

this might sound dumb but did you change the jumpers on the new hard drive and the old one? i.e. old hard drive= master new hard drive= slave check those that might be your problem