Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I left a key fact out of my original description. I can boot to the SATA drive. Everything seems to work normally for an hour or more, then the system spontaneously reboots and "loses" the SATA drive. Is it likely a motherboard problem if the problem doesn't occur on first boot? On 4/4/06, Carl Zeilon <pclinux at charter.net> wrote: > > Quoting jim scott <jimdscott at gmail.com>: > > > > I have a four month old SATA HD in my FC 4 system. A few days ago I > > > installed an IDE HD that a friend couldn't use any more. Since then, > my > > > system has been very unstable. The system spontaneously reboots and > leaves > > > me at a boot up screen with a message saying it can't find my SATA > drive. > > > > > > I changed the bay on my SATA drive during the install, so I checked > the > > > power and SATA cables. Those both looked good, but I reseated them > both to > > > be sure. Are there any system messages that I should look for? Any > other > > > potential traps when adding an IDE HD to a system? Thanks for any > clues. > > > > > Sounds like a potential issue with the motherboard. You may want to > check their > support site and see if there are any known issues where it flakes out > due to > having an IDE and SATA drive installed. I haven't heard of this before, > but I > could understand how it would happen. Maybe a bios update would resolve > it. > > Josh > > > > -----Look through your BIOS settings carefully. Make sure you have it > set to boot from your SATA drive first, etc. On my Asus board, there > are several settings on multiple pages that need to be correct. It was > not initially obvious what to do. > > Carl > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- http://ThreeWayNews.blogspot.com Your source. For everything. Really. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060404/6e1aa995/attachment.htm