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!


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