Computer freezes at "Detecting IDE drives"

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UnfaTeFuL

Limp Gawd
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So, yesterday I was playing WoW and my computer started to have abnormal sporadic freezes of 15-30 seconds. I turned off WoW and it completely frozed at Windows XP.

Then I turned off my computer and re-booted it. Now it freezes at "Detecting IDE drives" in BIOS after the memory test. I suspected a hard drive failure. So after a couple of hours later, the computer booted up fine. And I did a disk scan and found ZERO bad sectors and no errors. After some time it started to have sporadic freezing again. This happened when the computer was under load.

What's wrong with my hard drive? Is it about to burn up the more I use it this way? The temps on it were 50C under load. How can it reach this high when it was perfectly fine for the last past weeks?
 
have you run memtest? i'd pull the smaller stick, and try to boot with that.

something is yelling memory in my brain.
 
1.) Harddrives generate alot of heat.

2.) 50C, Well what temprature is everything else you know if your machine runs at a system temp of 42C 50C is not bad.

3.) the problem could be with your mainboard if you have the ability try a different controller
 
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