intermittent failure to detect ide drives on boot

buachille · 11 Feb 2007 at 11:46

hi,

sometimes when i boot my system the bios seems to freeze on post. at the point when it says detecting ide drives, it stops before detecting the 2 sata hdd's and doesn't go any further.

if i reboot it will do it fine.

i've never seen this before. anybody know what could cause this.

Cheers

system specs are:

Thermaltake Tsunami Black Case Inc Windowed Side Panel No PSU

Akasa Ultra Quiet 650W Power+ iQ Active PFC ATX2.01 PSU

Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB)

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

BFG GeForce 7800 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-010-BG)

Western Digrtal Caviar SE16 500GB 5000KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-075-WD

Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB SATA150 7200rpm 8mb

SONY CD-RW CRX320E

Plextor PX-716SA 16x dual layer

MeatLoaf · 11 Feb 2007 at 12:05

I had a similar problem, I have to have the plextor on SATA 1 otherwise it hangs at boot. Not really a problem for me tho as my HDD is IDE.

You could always try the latest BIOS.

buachille · 11 Feb 2007 at 13:06

You could always try the latest BIOS.

just did that. i hate updating the bios. when the system successfully reboots the relief is massive.

anyway, i'll keep an eye on it and see if it recurs.

cheers.

Faded · 12 Feb 2007 at 08:20

did updating the bios help?

buachille · 12 Feb 2007 at 08:35

well the problem has not recurred since, and i've restarted the machine loads of times, but it was an intermittent problem.

i did have a pretty new bios that was meant to include a sata drive fix, but i now have an even newer one that is also meant to have a sata drive fix.

i'd guess the problem is now fixed (fingers crossed).