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Boot issues

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HalfLifer

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Ok, on a friends computer I've been having a on and off issue and its driving me nuts to keep "fixing" it and the problem just reappears.

It currently has 4 HDDs, 2 CDroms, 1 floppy. 1800+, 512mb ram, 9600 Pro, TV tuner card, yada yada. All this is being run on an Antec TP 380w. I had to add an extra PCI IDE card to fit the HD's. They're all cabled up right, jumpers are set but I have issues on boot up where it'll say operating system not found and will display that every time no matter what I set the bios to boot from (HDD 0, 1, etc). Then it'll be fine and boot up out of no where. Without warning, it'll say OS not found and after a few restarts it'll work. Voltages appear OK in the bios on all the rails too.

What kind of issue am I looking at here? Its driving me nuts :mad:
 
You're missing the fact that IDE drives are a nightmare to get working right sometimes. Check the BIOS, make sure it is detecting all the drivers properly. Make sure all the connections are snug. 380 watts is plenty, so unless it is under-performing by 100 or more watts, then you should be ok. Even so, you would other issues, like crashing and it not booting. However, try disconnecting all of the HDDs but the one with the system OS on it. Then, reboot and reconnect one HDD at a time until you get the issue to manifest.
 
Make sure the drives are jumpered and connected properly.

Ensure that the BIOS is aligned with that and ensure that the boot order is correct.

Perhaps a BIOS update is in order?
 
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