Is your system overclocked? My system does the same thing if I overlock it too high.








On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 8:39 am, Gil Sery wrote:

>My computer works fine if I leave it on for weeks on end and just restart every 
few 

>days or so. However, when I shit it off and try to do a cold boot, it acts like 
it 

>can't find the hard drive.

>

>The only workaround I have found to this problem is this: I drive to my nearest 
Geek 

>Squad location, talk to the salesman, take my computer back home without having 
had 

>it fixed, plug everything back in, and it boots up wonderfully. The whole process 

>takes about an hour. How this works, I have no idea, but it does as I have done 
it 

>three or four times now.

>

>I tried unplugging everything while at home and just leaving the computer off for 

>an hour, and then plugging everything back in, but that didn't work as I still had 

>the same problem. Also, PC-cillin 2007 does not detect any boot viruses.  

>

>Any suggestions as to what I should do about this would be greatly appreciated. 
I 

>don't even know if it's a boot isue, a software issue, or a hardware issue. 

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