Help, File server not responding (Hardware issue do not move!)

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I instaled 2003 server and it worked fine for about 4 days and then stopped responding! (I had tihs problem for a while but had 2000 server installed and thought it was a software problem) So I went downstairs and quickly ocnnected a monitor to the server. I was surprised to find the computer right before the POST SCREEN! It was in the bios and had the "Looking for IDE drives .." or something like that message but when it usually finds the drives it was stuck in that state!

Now when I just press the RESET button it would restard but stlill be stuck when it got to that stage. However, when I pressed the power button waited 5 secs and turned it back on, all was well and it booted fine! This explains why pressing just the reset button before did not help with anything but only turning the power off for 5 secs and then back on did the trick. So now I really need some help. This mobo has everything integrated with 512 megs of ram. Is there any app I can run on it to determine what is causing it to be unstable? I would really appreciate some help, this is really killing me.
 
I'll check the hard drives, but I dont see why that would cause the system to reboot and the mobo not able to detect any hard drives even if I press reset untilI power off for 5 secs and power back on.
 
i have an HD that sometimes causes that. the system will stick at detecting ide devices with the read light on. i would have to reboot it multiple times until it would work, and it would keep getting worse and worse. i discovered that when I stuck the drive as a slave in another comp it would temporarly fix it, so every month or so i would have to move the hd around. but then i got a new mobo and it stopped
 
damn so what coiuld this be? I mean its bad enough for windows to get restarted?
 
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