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Strange Problem booting my PC

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Ladic

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Ok so the problem all of the sudden started yesterday here is the deal:

I have 3 hard drives, 1 SSD with my OS Vista 64bit, and 2 regular HD's with music, pictures, etc.
Since yestarday when I boot my PC after it reads all the info of the memory etc, it will get stuck on a blank screen.
If I go to the Bios there boot order for my HD is correct, the SSD is first.
If I unplugg both the mechanical HD's my PC will boot no problem.
Then I will turn of the PC and plug back both mechanical HD's and boot to bios and find that my SSD is now 3rd on the boot list priority of the HD's.
So I switch it and I can boot fine.

So what I don't understand is Why my PC keeps changing the boot priority of the HD's?
 
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Could just be the mobo acting a tad flaky.

But start doing some HDD tests just to rule them out.
 
[Testing the Hard Drive]
Download the CD image of Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP/Vista install CD. Test the hard drive and see if any problems are found. DFT will run on most manufacturers' hard drives. Alternatively, you can use Seagate's SeaTools for DOS to test a Seagate or Maxtor drive. For a Western Digital drive, you could use Data Lifeguard Tools for DOS to test a Western Digital drive.
 
Actually windows tells you when a drive is on its way. After 50 reading errors the speed of the drive switches PIO mode. You can check it in device manager under the controller.
 
well I changed the battery last night and at first everything seemed like it was working fine, it booted no problems.
But this Morning I started having the same issue, but this time, after I unplugged the mechanical HD's I was even having problem booting from the SSD, after a couple of restarts the SSD bootted (first in safe boot and then normal mode)
 
Intel Core 2 Duo 8400
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L
8gb ddr2 ram (4x2gb)
OCZ SSD
Samsung HD
WD HD
 
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