have this every happend to anyone?

[vengence00]

I have a gigabyte ga-7dxr. When I boot up sometimes the board doesn't recognize my ibm 60 gig harddrive and the 27 gig maxtor slave drive. I have to reset the pc a few times before it recognizes the ibm drive but then I get primary slave disk fail. I shut down and turn it on again then every thing is kosher. I'm thinking maybe its the power suppy. I have a enermax 430 watt pws. But I have 2 harddrives a burner, the floppy, the fan for the heatsink, two 120mm fans as well as a 80mm case fan all going. should I get a 650 ps. what do you think. Any idea why this is happening. everything works fine the board isn't overclocked no stability problems. Any suggestions?

 

[mothman]

If your power supply is going bad it can give you all sorts
of problems, but i don't think your over working it.
Make sure your hard drive cable is plugged in properly.
Are your drives set to master/slave?
Is the bios set to auto detect the hard drives?
Check with the manufactures web site for any updates, faq, etc...

Hope this helps....

 

[rommel]

check giga-bytes website for any hard drive issues...and check for bios updates adn corrections and improvements if applicable

 

[SmackFu]

That kinda sounds like this old PackardBell my friend has. Ever now and them, it won't detect the HD. The best thing I have found to do is to go into the BIOS and remove the HD, restart, and enter it back in. That ususally does the trick. I'm kinda thinking it could be a bad BIOS battery. It seems like it "forgets" the entered information.