Orginaly It's a Pentium 4 Socket 478, Intel SE7210TP1-E Sever Board, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 300 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeon X1300


Know since it changed over.  I had just built a computer a while back ago.  But I get an ocasional error from time to time, Disk Boot Failure, Insert system disk an press enter.  I do and it restarts to my BIOS settings.  I exit it and restarts an it tries to install xp.  I remove the power cable to the harddrive and reconnect it.  Boots into xp but doesn't see the D drive at times.  Reconnect the cables to it and windows scans the drive and runs okay. Then the error starts again. It's a Pentium 4 Socket 478, BioStar Board P4M80-M4, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 300 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeoon X 1300. It was a refurbished drive, but I get the error even if I set the Slave SATA to be a master.  I googled the matter and found what I needed.  It told me that my FIRMWARE needed updating.  But after contacting Maxtor it said there isn’t any firmware updates.  So I finally got Seatools installed and ran it but it says "No HBA Has Been Detected."  Is that bad?  Its a windows VERSION of the program.  These aren’t raided.  I have to run maxblast four to get this pc to work.  But when I run it, it doesn't see my mouse and the display is all differnt colors.  Which is part of he problem. 


Pentium 4 Socket 478, BioStar Board P4M80-M4, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 320 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeon X1300

I booted up the machine yesterday and didn't have any problems.  Then I unpluged it after it shut off, So I tried starting it and it would get to the xp load screen and then a blank screen appeared.  So I tried to format the drive, the maxblast colors were all wierd.  I thought the drive some how went bad like the one I had in the system before.  It sees it as a unknow partiton in the xp installation.  I don't have another machine that will see the drives, I have the orginal drive I took out but I don't want to open the case unless I have too.  Also the drive I had replaced it with is brand new olny about a week old. This shouldn't happen cause it didn't occur the first week, also afraid that the drive wouldn't show up and having to reinstall wind xp every other day and opening the case and reconnect and disconnecting the cables to them. I contacted Seagatr and they said

Nick TS174: ...
Robert: Will it work on this drive Maxtor 300 GB Model 6B300SO Serial B603FP5H DiamondMax
Robert: I was told there were problems with these drives
Robert: The same problems are occuring
Nick TS174: Im not aware of any problems with that device and that application.
Robert: I was told there were it would I get an ocasional error from time to time, Disk Boot Failure, Insert system disk an press enter.  I do and it restarts to my BIOS settings.  I exit it and restarts an it tries to install xp.  I remove the power cable to the harddrive and reconnect it.  Boots into xp but doesn't see the D drive at times.  Reconnect the cables to it and windows scans the drive and runs okay. Then the error starts again.  I was told to update the firmware code but there isn't one
Nick TS174: I think the progblems you are having here go beyond the abilities of chat support.



After a few more hours of some reshearch and hard work.  So what I'm able to tell know is its not the drives.  I conected an IDE and it had the same problem.  I dont think its the board or cpu as these were replaced and still the problems is there.  There is a 450 watt psu Xion Model LC-B450E set to 115 volts.  Large ThermalRight heatsink on the cpu.  Hope this helps as to pointing to an answer.Just so we know that there arent any complications as to what has happend.  Sorry its so long.  No one I know has figured whats wrong with it.  I'm going to build a multi MEDIA soon an just in case this happens it would be helpful to know.Ring, Ring.... Can I have some help please?  I said please.  Come on guys.    I said please.  Its giveing me the exact same problems know and I finally had it booting regulary.  Know is saing NTLDR is missing and needs to restart and I tried the Xp repair and it didnt help.  HELP  I asked nicely.i just really do not want to read that short essay of a post.

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Know is saing NTLDR is missing and needs to restart and I tried the Xp repair and it didnt help.

Homer I'm getting tired of your intentions this drive is new and only two weeks old