My initial feeling on this is a failing CMOS battery. Does this happen when you do a warm boot, or just on a cold boot. If it occurs during a warm boot, that's probably not it. But, if it does it on a cold boot, I would say you are loosing settings when you turn the computer off due to a failed or failing batter. Kyle >Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Randomly Won't Recognize Hard Drive >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:35:35 -0400 > >Basically, my friend's comp. just hung as the hard drive would not >recognize. I rebooted and had it automatically detect the hard drive but >it seems to have happened again. Once I had it auto detect, Windows booted >successfully adn I was able to move about normally, but once it was shut >down, chaos re-occured. Do you suppose that there is a virus or something >along those lines??? Please help!! Thanks! _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions. If you would like to contribute to the website, send any hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to: [log in to unmask]