Strange, random bootup problems!

broona

broona

broona

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PC's been playing up this morning, randomly stopping whilst booting into Vista, and it's taking me 5 or 6 attempts to get it to load up each time!

Sometimes it hangs whilst identifying drives, sometimes the Vista loading bar freezes, sometimes I get past that to a black screen where it freezes again, anyone got any ideas?!

Tried to boot from the Vista CD to repair, which again gets to the loading bar and freezes, so that's no use either.

Reset the bios to default settings, didn't appear to help either.

Help please?! :confused:
 
EVGA 650i Ultra
Intel E8400
512mb HD3850
4gb (4x1gb) Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667
550w Corsair VX PSU
SB X-Fi
2x Seagate 7200.10 320gb HDD's
2x DVD-RW drives
 
Forgot to mention earlier, it will occasionally boot up minus my C: (OS installed to H:), a few reboots seems to resolve this. All drives recognised in the bios, and show up at boot, but not there in Windows. Initially thought this was due to my old HDD, but have a new one in now, and am experiencing the same problems, strange?
 
Unplugged my second (Samsung) DVD-RW and swapped my second HDD onto that channel, appears to be working OK now, perhaps it just doesn't like all 4 SATA channels being populated?
 
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