Quote Originally Posted by Brashen View Post
Hey guys,

This is my first post on here since I'm a [H]ardforum regular. But since I've been following this thread religiously since the past week or so, I decided to post my problem to see if anyone here can help. (Hardware in sig)

Nearly every time a boot up, the bios keeps switching my boot HD around. I have no idea why, I save my changes and everything every time but it still wont work. Second problem, although I'm not sure if this is MOBO related, is that everytime I install or patch something my PC freezes for a second to half a minute.

I 've run Prime 95 overnight and everything seems fine and dandy. I've gone back to my default settings in the bios.

Any Idea what could be causing these problems? My os is vista ultimate.

Thanks guys!!
I had this experience and it turned out to be the sata ports.
Like usual on a build I put my primary HD in sata port 1 and secondary HD in sata port 2. Pretty much standard stuff.
Noticed that the system would switch the HDs as you mention.
Also noticed that the my primary drive (WD VelociRaptor) was very sluggish.
Tested both the primary and secondary drive and the VelociRaptor was being smoked by the secondary drive. Defiantly strange and not suppose to happen.

Corrected the problem by putting the main drive on sata port 2 and secondary on sata 4.

It is my opinion that the drive in sata port 1 was reporting so slowly that when the bios was determining boot order the only HD there was the one on sata port 2. So it got selected as the primary and then later the HD on sata port 1 finally does report it is the second drive.
This is only my opinion and I really did not test it out.

So try to put the main HD on sata port 2 and change the HD and boot priority in the bios and see if it corrects the problem.

Hope that helps.