So, China has been gone because his computer has ____________ issue.

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chinaonnitrous1

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Fill in the blank with your phraze!!!

I haven't even tried to get this thing running since I've been so busy after my long summer vacation abroad and a few other car events, work etc...

It is a Evga 780I running 8800GT 2 cards in SLI

OCZ Reaper memory at 8gb, 2 gb x 4 sticks

E6700 Cpu not O/C

Western Digital 750gb hdd SATA

Western Digital Raptor hdd SATA.

Vista 64 Premium.

Power PC & Cooling 750w Psu.

But before we get all that far. Sometimes the WD 750 gb is not recgonized even in my BIOS. I've gone as far as to boot with WD tools and scan the drive. It had a few bad sectors etc... But the problem seemed to go away and it would boot into Windows fine. Now it often won't see the 750 gb hdd at all. Which is a disaster since most of my files are on it, and I use the 150gb Raptor to boot etc...

It sometimes will take forever to boot or shut down.

I'm wondering if it could be a BIOS issue, or really just a failed hard drive.

I guess I should flash to the latest one and see what happens.
 
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BOIS issue, PSU issue, or Memory issue. I would suggest linux boot tools/disc for testing.

Let me know if you need help with this :)

Of course, a failing HD could be the issue. I would think, however, that the S.M.A.R.T. system would let you know. Especially if the problem is intermittent. Have you tested with 1x ram in slot 0?
 
Seems like it would be the BIOs. If a drive was failing it usually won't go from "bad sector" to "rainbows and unicorns" at least from my experience.
However just asking, how is the Raptor? Does it run into problems or slowdowns? Or is it running fine. If it's working normally then it might actually be the 750gb drive that's failing.
 
One thing to add, at one point the Computer would not boot or even shut down. Removing the 2 SATA cables for the 2 cd-roms. Then it was fine.

The raptor has been fine I think. I can't get away from it since it does also contain some files that is needed to boot.

I'll check into the Bios issue.
 
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