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My daughters computer shut down by itself, now it will not boot up or recognise my hard drives or disk drives.

On my daughters computer, I had Windows 2000 pro on the hard drive, a back-up hard drive with a ghost image on it, and a 52x CD drive.and comp would not boot up – just kept saying drives not recognised.
Would not even start from Windows disk, or in safe mode.
Went into bios, and everything seemed fine, altered things and put them back as they were set, even loaded defaults, and still no joy.
I formatted the hard drives, and loaded Windows XP pro, and I am still having the same problem.
I have also tried several different hard drives, thinking that the original was on its way out.
Anyone got any ideas as to how to fix it, or what the cause is??
I re-formatted the hard drive on another computer in the house.
The original hard drive is only 8Gb so it is not too big for the P3 motherboard to handle.

99.9% of the time it either the eide cables or the jumpers on the HD.Check to make sure the cable is securely plug ed in with the red stripe along side the power plug.Check the bios and make sure its set for auto detect IDE HDD. If that does not resolve the issue, check the motherboard to see what max size HD it supports and set jumper for that max(there may be more than one on some boards).Makes sure to check that the jumper on the HD is set to master.Lastly try resetting the cmos. Hopefully this will get you going let us know how it works out for you.

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