It sounds like a thermal issue with the cabling. The drive heats up, the
connection expands, and backs off the connector. Then it cools down and
reseats. Try a new ribbon cable, and reseat or switch the PS cable.
Rode
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>I have a 5 year old PentiumII 350mhz on a chaintech 6btm motherboard with
>a tnt2ultra graphic card, 128mb ram and an 8.2gig Seagate hard drive. The
>power supply contained a fan which has failed, as has the fan on the
>graphic card. Presumably my problem relates to overheating, but the bios
>does not indicate this. What's happening is that my hard drive sometimes
>just shuts down in the middle of normal usage. Pressing reset sees the
>motherboard fail to detect the hard drive. Pressing the on/off switch
>gets it working again. This can happen after only 1 to 2 mins or after 1
>hour of use. I have re-formatted the drive but it made no
>differerence. Is it simply overheating or a hard drive problem? Any
>advice appreciated.
>
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