The last thing that I would suspect is your hard drive. It is most likely a
cabling issue. Try re-seating the ribbon cable, or even replacing it. If
you continue to have problems, look to the controller, particular if it is
a PCI controller, like a Promise controller, or even a IRQ conflict. It
could also be a timing issue with your BIOS. See if there is a hard drive
detection delay you can enable in the BIOS.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group
http://www.freepctech.com/rode/

At 04:53 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote:
>  Hello All,
>Over the last month or so, upon booting up computer a screen has shown up
>with "No Hard Drive Found".
>After re-booting, it worked fine.  This has happened 2-3 times. Tonite, I
>had to re-boot twice.  Is this a warning of things to come? AMD AthlonXP
>1700+ Maxtor 5T040H4  40GB HD 1.024RAM Windows XP Home SP-2 Build 2600
>Thanx,
>stephen r stanfield
>
>

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