A7N8X HELP !!!!

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I am running a A7N8X board with 1 Gig of Ram and an 200 chip all of a sudden
upon boot its fails to recognize my hard drive .
If I reboot again everything's fine.

this is random so I am puzzled

Any Thoughts ?

Tony
 
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:01:52 -0400, "Tonyjc" <Tonyjc@comcast.net>
wrote:

>I am running a A7N8X board with 1 Gig of Ram and an 200 chip all of a sudden
>upon boot its fails to recognize my hard drive .
>If I reboot again everything's fine.
>
>this is random so I am puzzled
>
>Any Thoughts ?
>
>Tony
>

Loose/bad IDE cable or power cable. Bad or going bad drive (is SMARTS
enabled?) bad power supply. and so on.

Any more info might be helpful.

Jeff
 
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Thanks it was a bad cable.



"Tonyjc" <Tonyjc@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Ab2dnSFkQul9_rrcRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
>I am running a A7N8X board with 1 Gig of Ram and an 200 chip all of a
>sudden upon boot its fails to recognize my hard drive .
> If I reboot again everything's fine.
>
> this is random so I am puzzled
>
> Any Thoughts ?
>
> Tony
>