hard drive not detected on cold start

[ghins]

I have been encountering this problem of late. When I do a cold start, the hard disk drive does not show up in the BIOS !!!. It tries to boot from CD and fails (as there is no bootable CD in there )...

Then I need to wait for some time, switch off the system and switch it on again. Now it works fine !!!

What could be the problem ?

[skhips]

You should be able to tell the bios to boot first to A drive then C drive, not CD ROM

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[ghins]

Originally posted by skhips:
You should be able to tell the bios to boot first to A drive then C drive, not CD ROM

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Thats fine ... But as I said, the HDD **does not show up in the bios** on a cold start.

[mjc]

Often when a hard drive doesn't show up on a cold boot it is because the system is booting too quickly, and the hard drive has not "spun up" yet, setting the boot order to A: then C: will add enough of a delay for it to spin up, also sometimes you may need to disable "quick post".

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[not bob the builder]

Your BIOS may have additional settings for controlling HDD delay. Worth a nosy around. Could be a conflict? Check slave/master settings on HDD and IRQs for HDC. Pretty sure the others are right tho' and it is just a case of the HDD being slooow to POST.
Otherwise might try cracking your PC open and making sure you have no loose cables.

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[ghins]

This is the way my PC is configured -

HDD is primary master
CD-RW is secondary master.

Boot sequence is _ A, CDROM, HDD

[skhips]

If your HDD is set to user as opposed to Auto you will not see it in the POST, could go to auto detect in BIOS to see if your PC can see the HDD.

change boot sequence from A,CDROM,C to A,C

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