Changing profile settings or any settings in XP has nothing to do with your
disk drives spinning up. No drives in the bios means not drives for the OS
to see, it's as simple as that. You either have a ide controller problem or
one of your drives could be affecting the ide bus. Make sure your important
data is backed up.
"Keith Watson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> hello,
> i have a PC with 2 hard drives. i'm not sure if my
> problem is with both drives but it's at least with the
> system drive. lately i've had trouble with the drives
> powering down when the computer goes to sleep and not
> coming back to life when the computer wakes up. also, if
> i turn the computer off because of this problem, with
> increasing regularity, the drives don't spin up when
> turning the computer on. the bios shows no drives at all
> when initializing.
>
> another post i saw seemed to be relevant and the answer
> was that the drive is dying and needs to be replaced.
> but the problem was only when starting up, not when
> already started. i have set power options in all
> profiles on this pc so that the drives are never supposed
> to power down, yet they continue to do so.
>
> so far the problem has been intermittent, and there are 2
> profiles that get used regularly on the pc. i just
> noticed that there was a settings difference between
> them: one had the display welcome screen upon wake box
> checked, one didn't. when i unchecked that box in the
> one profile, the next time i tried to wake it up, the
> drives wouldn't spin. does this mean anything?
>
> thanks for your help.
>
> keith
>
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