Hard drives not detected - mobo problem?

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I switched on my PC this morning and it just hanged on the BIOS logo screen (which I do have switched off). After a minute or so it came up with an overclocking failed! Press F1 to enter setup, F2 to load default values message. I entered setup and noticed that no hard drives nor my DVD drive were detected, I saved changes and it rebooted. This time I got the 'reboot and select proper boot device' message, obvious reason for that.

After opening the case and just pushing the cables in a little bit, it booted up and detected all the hard drives, and CD drive. The BIOS had been reset in some way so the clock was set wrong.

I haven't changed any settings recently nor changed the overclock settings. The motherboard is an Asus P5B-E.

Does anyone know what could have caused this?
 
Probably the BIOS fairies.

Sometimes these things happen, if the CD cable was partly in it could have confused the BIOS about what was plugged in where, thats all I can think of.
 
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