[planters49]

Hello,

I have 1 SATA Hard drive as my main drive and two IDE harddrives on the primary IDE channel. I starting noticing the two secondary IDE drives disappearing for no reason (they basically shutdown like they got uninstalled). I have to restart the computer for them to come back. I'm running windows XP SP2. Does anybody no what is causing this problem?

Thanks

 

[rmay635703]

Do you hear any noise when they dissappear? Like the sound of the hard(s) drive shutting off?

Hard drives shut down under a few circumstances,
1. bad PSU
2. Bad HD
3. Motherboard sends out a "sleep" signal or is simply defective

Any other info you can add?

Sometimes shutting off power management in the bios fixes this if it is a bios bug specifically, I know the old m571's would shut off secondary hard drives when not in use to the point of aggravation.

Good Luck

 

[planters49]

I don't hear any noise or anything. Also, it is for sure a windows problem because every time I restart, the bios finds all my drives and then windows will find them until they go away. One other thing to add that I just discovered is, if I go to device manager and tell it to "scan for new hardware" windows will find both the harddrives after they have gone away.

Here's my specs if it helps:

Main drive: SATA WD 120GB
Secondary IDE drive: WD ATA 80GB
Third HD: IBM 14GB
Motherboard:Intel D875PBZ
Processor: P4 Processor 2.8GHz, 800MHz
Memory: Kingston HyperX 1G DDR400
Sony DVD-/+ burner
Creative labs 6x DVD drive
Soundblaster Live

 

[Majixlt]

Might check out the IDE cable also, it goes bad and does what you discribed. Swap them around if you have a spare. Make sure the red band is on pin 1 and you will be ok.

 

[planters49]

Thanks for the help, I'll check out the IDE cables