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Hi everyone, Here my problem, When I boot up computer windows starts and works for a while then I get blue screen saying a process or thread crucial to system has unexpectly exited or been terminated. Computer restarts but now bios can't find my hard drive. Primary SATA not found. If I turn off main power for a couple of seconds and start back up it finds the sata and boots windows until it happens again. I figure it has to be something with the board or bios. I have a P4 3.0, 1gb kingston ram, 160gb seagate sata hd, Msi mainboard. Any help at all would be great. Thanks alot.

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Could be a problem with the hard drive itself. Can you check the drive on another computer?

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I checked it on another computer with the exact same board and had the same problem. The hd is only about 2 months old. It seems like it only started happening after I updated some drivers and bios. Thanks

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Well, if the problem recurs on another machine, you can be sure the drive is bad. Backup your data and get it replaced (it's still under warranty).

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Hello, Ok I put an IDE hd in and windows still suddenly restarts after 5 or 10 mins only no blue screen and bios finds the IDE drive and windows boots up for a few mins. then restarts again. I'm not an expert with drives but why after I shut the main power off and back on does bios recon. the sata. I thought maybe a prob with windows but that should not have anything to do with bios right. This is the first sata I have ever used and I bought it off Ebay so I don't know about a warranty. I have not had it long enough to get alot of stuff that I need to get off so if it is bad I wish it would just quit so I would know for sure. Thanks

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