I have an ECS Elightgroup motherboard (their K7S5A model) with a 30 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE hard drive. I have the BIOS flashed to the latest version. I am running a dual-boot system with Windows 2000 and Windows ME. (I have my reasons! :-] )
Whenever I power the computer on after ANY interruption of power, I have to go into the BIOS each and every time and re-declare the hard drive to the CMOS setup. If the system’s running, and I reboot it without interrupting the power, it retains the settings, but takes an unusually long time to get past the part where it’s finding the hard drive. I have researched this problem up one side of the web and down the other and can find nobody else that has this particular problem.
About theonly thing I can figure that it might be is my power supply… here’s why: ECS recommends a 300 Watt power supply for this particular motherboard, but states that it will run at 250. I did not have a 300 W power supply available; all I had was a 250. Could this possibly be the source of my problem, or should I look elsewhere?
The drive is a master drive; there is a DVD drive on the same channel. The secondary channel has a CD Re-writeable drive on it. All of the jumpers are correct.