Weird! Any ideas?

[towie]

This is what happens:-

Using the `puter it will suddenly reboot. It doesn`t matter what programme I am using, it appears to be random.

When it reboots, i get the message "wrong disk - insert boot disk". Being to mean to pay (and not wanting the bugger to beat me), I have found that it has "lost" the main C drive. By getting into the bios I can get the machine to "find" it again and then by going to advanced bios I can swap the hard disc boot order. (I have two hard drives).

Questions:-


Is it a virus?
Is it a hardware problem - if so which bit?

tia

[SneakyNeil]

Allmost certainly not a virus, I'd check the security of the cabling to the drives. If it's OK it could be the drive failing, or a weird compatability thing - maybe swap them round in terms of master/slave, adjust bios to suit and see if it's any more reliable?

[a2]

Yep, had same problem, people suggested the cables going to my hard drive. I thought feck off dont be so stupid.


Turned out to be the cabling going to my hard drive.

[ThePassenger]

Cabling, drive on it's last legs or

BIOS battery (yes they do have one), would explain the boot order getting muddled. Cheap enough to fix it's a watch battery, take the old one out get a new one, pop it in... reset date/time and bingo.

One of those things where you've got to walk through each of them to find the culprit I'm afraid. First step: Check the cables are all secure. If you have them try using some spares (or swapping the DVD and HDD cables over).