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HDD Removed from Bios

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by breizh333 1 view

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My system is based on a ECS K7S5A+Athlon1000+SDRAM 256Meg+WD40G HDD+ WD80G HDD+CD+CDR+GEFORCE2MMX running on W2K. My son got a lot of hang up by running games on the net but this week-end, the system hangs during a DiabloII save and impossible to restart: after investigation, both HDD drives disappeared from BIOS setup. I was able to have them back active in the BIOS, boot correctly backup my system from one drive to another but the same bug appears after a while. Any idea?

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by opatzg9

#1) do a virus scan
#2) do another virus scan
#3) It may be time to replace the motherboard battery or check your power, something is making you lose your bios settings which are powered while plugged in to the recepticle, a ups would be a nice additive to condition the power to the pc to rule out brown outs or spikes and in the long run is a good investment for the pc.
Not being able to save merely means it had already lost the hard drive while the game was running. Are you dsl'd into the internet or running across a modem line, a personal firewall may be necessary there in case this is a hack in situation. There is a good chance with all the hardware you have that you may be overtaxing the power supply, what size is that? 300w,400w300 is normally the bare minimum for amd athlons and with all the things you have there you are tasking it heavily, a larger power supply would not hurt, I had a problm with the same setup syb a dvd for the cd, 30gig for the 40, 80 for 80, and I runwith only the 80 gig but it was a little flaky when trying to move data between the 2 drives. Good luck

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