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        <description><![CDATA[See my post under Hard Drive Failure, regarding Ram.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 14:04:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[just tried your suggestions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1) I did a virus scan and to the best of my knowledge, I don't think there is a virus since I keep my definitions updated and autoprotect is always on.2) I tried turning off autodetect but instead of now showing up in POST, I just get an error message saying primary master drive failure.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:06:22 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SMART Diagnostic Test Results]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Test Option:QUICK TESTModel Number:WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1Unit Serial Number:WD-XXXXXXXXXXXXFirmware Number:17.07W17Capacity:120.03 GBSMART Status:PASSTest Result:PASSTest Time:11:30:22, January 16, 2007Test Option:EXTENDED TESTModel Number:WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1Unit Serial Number:WD-XXXXXXXXXXXXFirmware Number:17.07W17Capacity:120.03 GBSMART Status:PASSTest Result:PASSTest Time:11:53:04, January 16, 2007]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:57:33 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[CMOS Battery]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sometimes a dying CMOS battery will cause the same problem.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:41:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A number of things.....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but the two top ones are a virus or your post test settings could be set to auto.Check your bios and make sure that your bios detcts the drives and is not set to auto.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:37:24 -0800</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[This started happening a few weeks ago. Before everything was fine.I have two hard drives on my PC; one for XP, the other for programs and data. When the computer boots up, sometimes it will only detect my programs and data hard drive. It takes a few power downs and restarts before it'll notice the OS one.What might be the problem? The problematic hard drive is a 120 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE which I purchased in December 2002. When I run the quick SMART test, it'll pass. I'm running the extended test as I speak.Could it be a worn out cable?Other specs: Custom built PC with AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, 1GB DDR 2100 RAM, ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard (nForce 2 chipset), Gainward nVidia GeForce 4 MX440, the problem-free HDD is a 160GB 7200 RPM Seagate.]]></description>
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