Boot Problems

feyd83 · 12-27-04, 07:47 PM

Has anyone ever had their harddrives change their boot order by themselves?
My girlfriend's computer keeps changing from booting from SATA to IDE. I can't figure out why.

link1305 · 12-27-04, 09:00 PM

Just a guess, but maybe the CMOS battery is dying.

feyd83 · 12-27-04, 11:56 PM

New mobo (ASRock), all the other settings don't change.

Know Nuttin · 12-28-04, 01:50 AM

have you reflashed the bios?

12-27-04, 07:47 PM	Thread Starter #1
feyd83 Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Atlanta	Boot Problems Has anyone ever had their harddrives change their boot order by themselves? My girlfriend's computer keeps changing from booting from SATA to IDE. I can't figure out why.
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12-27-04, 09:00 PM	#2
link1305 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Cleveland, Ohio	Just a guess, but maybe the CMOS battery is dying. __________________ Main System i7 930 \| 12GB DDR3 1333 \| Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R \| EVGA GeForce GTX 470 \| OCZ ModXStream 700w \| 60GB OCZ Vertex \| 74 GB Raptor \| Corsair 600T Boots Gentoo and Win 7 x64 Roadcase Core 2 Duo 6750 \| 4GB RAM \| GeForce 8800 GTS \| 30 GB OCZ Vertex \| 500GB Seagate 7200.11 \| OCZ ModXStream 500w ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Server 2x Opteron 280 \| Asus K8N-DL \| 2gb Registered DDR RAM \| 1 TB Hitach \| 320GB Seagate \| Gentoo Linux running MythTV
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12-27-04, 11:56 PM	Thread Starter #3
feyd83 Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Atlanta	New mobo (ASRock), all the other settings don't change.
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12-28-04, 01:50 AM	#4
Know Nuttin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	have you reflashed the bios? __________________ AMD Phenom II X4 965BE, Asus M5A88-V Evo, 8GB Mushkin Blackline DDR3-1600 , Coolermaster Hyper212+, OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB, Seagate 7200.11 500GB, Antec EA-380 Lenovo X200, P8400 C2D, 8GB, 120GB OCZ Vertex 3.
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