serious hard drive problem please help.

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Urvish Trivedi

Hi,
I have windows server 2003, sql 2000, office 2003 running
on one server. i always keep my machine on and last week
i couldn't see anything in the monitor and restarted the
machine. it booted but nothing came up one the screen.
Sometimes it halt saying "checking nvram" but most of the
time it goes beyond that screen and then nothing come up.

if i shutdown machine for 10-15 mins then i can go to
desktop but it used to halt everytime. finally i opened
the machine and the hd cable was bent badly so i fixed. i
thought my hard drive was crashed that's why it can't
bootup or hang up when i go to desktop. now when i fixed
cable it bootup and worked like almost an hour so i
thought it wasn't a hard drive. Then i was working with
DNS server and as I configure as root server, the machine
halted again. now i don't think so because of dns server
but i have no idea. i restarted again and now it can boot
but doesn't come anything in the screen. it passes the
regular boot screen and say Floppy drive NOT FOUND, cd
ROM found and IDE 0 not found. Now sometimes work and
most of the times doesn't work and gets hanged up. what
could be the probelm? Hard Drive, mother board, hd cable?

please help.
 
When you say hd cable badly bent! What exactly are you
saying??
A ribbon cable can take being bent, with no problem.
it does sound like a cable problem, as it's not able to
read the drive 0 slot, nor the floppy drive, replace the
cables, if fixed grand! if not then you have a problem
with the controller on the mb!
 
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