hdd and startup prob in win

[goats]

aoa
guys i have following specs

• d930 2x3ghz
• 102ggc2
• 450w
• 1.5 gb ddr2 667mhz(1gb)533mhz(512mb)
• 80gb seagate(connected by IDE connector to mobo)
• sony dvd rw
• 8600gts 512mb

now i have had these problems lately that my pc sometimes doesnt boot i mean the power light turns on but screen is blank and then when i restarts it it normally turns on window sometimes it takes two or more restarings to turn on window
and is increasing now even i have formatted this drive completely plus im now using win 7 ultimate
in this case it says
"NTDLR missing" at startup after the intel screen and after 2-3 restarts win normally runs and everything is ok even games are at their best
I had checked my 80 gb hdd and it has no errors or bad sectors till now so what do u guys think is causing the problem hardware issue or anything else
sometimes when this happens(black screen or NTLDR(win 7 case)) in bios it doesnt show the hdd only the dvd rom ,in boot order so it doesnt detect the hdd which is there alright so is it the mobo or hdd
it is really pissing me off nad damagin my other componeents by all that restarting plz help
i posted cause i know u guys got the solution do reply
regards

 

[Darryl Licht]

What Mobo, what bios?

 

[goats]

its 102 ggc2 intel with bios it came with havent updated since cause its very old now
plz need advice someone help

 

[goats]

updated the bios to latest release from intel
till no luck
i thik it works when it gets hot after keeping pc on for a while how can this problem be solved

 

[whest]

Have you both those video cards installed on the motherboard if so remove one, and see if fixes the problem which maybe not enough power.

 

[goats]

no no 102 ggc2 is my mobo and 8600gts is my gpu there is no secondary card

 

[whest]

This goes back over 10 years ago but worth a mention although it may not be accurate - the memory went on one of my sticks and it was a slow process but errors would occur in any hard drive scan progressively getting worse and eventually they wouldnt complete then it eventually wouldnt boot, but you say your not getting any errors - there is a memory diagnosis tool in W7 if you want to give it a run. Just type memory diagnosis in search.

 

[goats]

the result came out all ok
its the seagate hdd i just installed anothewr hdd via SATA and it is working perfectly ithink its the ide thing on the mobo so im going to buy this ide-sata converter may be that helps what do u think
any details u want from me abt the hdd to help u diagnose the problem better do reply

 

[whest]

Did you check the bios settings - i think it recommends to set it to auto to detect all drives . You have 4 sata ports available and 2 ide is that correct and you think the IDE controller isnt working properly - you could be correct. How are you connecting the drive to the controller - you havent got it connected as slave with cd/dvd rom as master by any chance - if thats the case it would be the cause of the problem.
I'm not sure you should be buying IDE converter - if you could afford it i would buy another sata drive I think if it were me, but I dont know about an IDE converter to sata, and how do you know it would be compatlbile with your board. I just did a search and its pretty expensive connector to support an old drive - maybe a new drive would be a better option.
Your boards name is D102ggc2 just in case anyone else wants to find drivers, or has any suggestions.

 

[goats]

aoa\
thnx all and especially whest for all ur thoughts and suggestion i bought this ide-sata converter and it costs like 4.7 us $ so aint that expensive whest and it did the job its wonderfdul my hdd is booting all ok and there are no problems on anything it totally compatible with all ide drives and damn im happy my 80gbs are back on line
no other issue so conclusion
any one using d101 or 102 ggc boards having ide problems get a sata-ide converter