[Bluz]

Hi, lately I've been having troubles with my current version of windows (xp) since a power outage. So I just went ahead and tossed my spare 750gb drive in and loaded a copy of Xp on it and all of a sudden this morning my computer was sitting in bios (I always boot to bios then go from there) And it wouldn't boot to the new drive, I also noticed my clock speeds were reverted back to there defaults (no not a new overclock, it's been oc'd for years at the same speed) and now on my old copy of windows the 750GB drive is not appearing. This happened awhile back here with a spare drive of mine, changing the sata ports helped but it appears to be happening again. Could my sata ports be screwed? I could possibly set the mobo back to 100% factory settings but I don't see that changing much. Specs below,

Evga 680i mobo
Intel E6750 2.66ghz (oc'd to 3.2ghz)
OCZ 2GB DDR-800 ram (passes memtest - also just removed 2GB because the board was saying it was defective)
8800GS Asus graphics card
750gb seagate drive (the one thats "disapeared")
500gb seagate drive (storage)
500gb wd drive (storage)
160gb wd drive (my current copy of windows that I'm posting from)


So should I just go ahead and order a cheap 775 board? Something like a gigabyte for around $100?

[Ditchster]

Have you tried to restore factory defaults yet?

Also, this power outrage (i take it you mean surge) Did this happen when your pc was on? and do you use a proper surge protector block between your mains and the PC?

[Bluz]

^ It was a power outage, I got a beklin surge protector that I've used for about a year now and it shows on it's lcd screen nothing was wrong :-/ I'll try the factory settings. And yes the pc was on at the time of the outage.

[Bluz]

Factory settings didn't change anything Anyone else have ideas?