What went wrong overnight?

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Calum

Here's the problem...

I'm running a BFG 680i motherboard connected to 1 PATA and 3 SATA hard
drives. The computer has been running flawlessly for 3 months. I
turned the computer off one night and the next morning when I booted
up it started doing a full memory count so I knew something had
changed. The drives are receiving power, although the Bios is not
detecting any of my them and I have no idea what could have
happened.

Any thoughts on the matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Calum
 
Here's the problem...

I'm running a BFG 680i motherboard connected to 1 PATA and 3 SATA hard
drives. The computer has been running flawlessly for 3 months. I
turned the computer off one night and the next morning when I booted
up it started doing a full memory count so I knew something had
changed. The drives are receiving power, although the Bios is not
detecting any of my them and I have no idea what could have
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One drive croaked and is keeping the rest from showing up. Pull the
data cables of them one at a time and try booting after each, or just
connect them up one at a timea nd see which one doesn't show.
 
Sounds like the BIOS settings have changed. Go into BIOS setup and
check all of the settings.
 
Thanks all for your help. I don't know how but the CMOS decided to
corrupt or something. I reset the CMOS and now it's fine.

I would be very interested If anyone could shed some light onto how
this could have happened.
 
Calum said:
Thanks all for your help. I don't know how but the CMOS decided to
corrupt or something. I reset the CMOS and now it's fine.

I would be very interested If anyone could shed some light onto how
this could have happened.
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your battery may be going dead...so intermittently it makes the bios fail.
 
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