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Reddevil63 · 13-09-2003, 13:22

My computer has suddenly decided to freeze completely now and again and get this funny beep noise from inside the tower.

As I can't shut down the normal way, I just power the tower off and switch back on but when the boot up screen appears, where it says 'detecting IDE' it just stops and then a maybe 20 secs later it comes back with no hard drive detected.

It then proceeds to the next boot up screen and says 'boot disk failure, please insert system disk.'

So shut down again, boot up and suddenly the BIOS is detecting my IDE drives.

Sometimes I manage to get to desktop screen partially loaded and then those funny noises again and then freeze.

At the mo the computer is working fine as I type this but could freeze at any moment.

Any ideas??????

13-09-2003, 13:22	#1
Reddevil63 Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Swindon..center of the M4 corridor Age: 62 Services: Virgin 20Mb CM, Sky+, TV Drive Posts: 676	Hard Drive problems? My computer has suddenly decided to freeze completely now and again and get this funny beep noise from inside the tower. As I can't shut down the normal way, I just power the tower off and switch back on but when the boot up screen appears, where it says 'detecting IDE' it just stops and then a maybe 20 secs later it comes back with no hard drive detected. It then proceeds to the next boot up screen and says 'boot disk failure, please insert system disk.' So shut down again, boot up and suddenly the BIOS is detecting my IDE drives. Sometimes I manage to get to desktop screen partially loaded and then those funny noises again and then freeze. At the mo the computer is working fine as I type this but could freeze at any moment. Any ideas??????