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    severe hard drive problems

    not getting any help at dellforums... seems to not be bios or motherboard related from what i have read there... anyone else got any ideas...
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    severe hard drive problems

    will look now been at this for hours now and is getting so annoying... thanks for trying to help...
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    severe hard drive problems

    done that 4 times now...
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    severe hard drive problems

    its an ide hard drive the 250GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2507,200RPM / 8MB Buffer... bios reads the hard drive fine... dell dimension 8200 series bios version A08... as far as motherboard i havve no idea... edit - intel850... how do i upgrade both motherboard and bios drivers... ran...
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    severe hard drive problems

    got new hard drive 250gig... all is fine but after a few hours it just wont boot up again... just get a flashing cursor in the screen... onl thing i can do is reformat from there... done it three times now and the same problem... formatted all from scratch... its fine for about five hours...