Drives don't show up

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I upgraded my computer 2 weeks ago to a 2.2 ghz P4, mb soyo dragon 2 v1.0
model SY-P4I865PE, 2 160 gb hd, 512m ram (centron), 2 cd roms, Nvidia 64 mb
PCI video card and Windows XP Pro SP2. The system was running fine until last
Friday (I installed office 2003) the system became very unstable a few hours
later, I was trying to access a cd when an error msg said incorrect config. I
looked into Explore and My computer and could not see any of my drives, I
rebooted and windows loaded fine but then the system locked up, I rebooted
again and the system came up fully, again into windows but then locked up
again. This happened many times locking up at different places through out
the boot process. Since I just bought new memory I went back and had CompUSA
replace it. The system worked fine for a while but when it boots up and I
look into My Computer or Explore I don't see any drives listed until after
about one minute then the drives appear. My system still locks up and
sometimes reboots itself. Does anyone know of a problem of this type? Could
it be my new mb or the CPU or the memory or do I need to re-install everythig
and start over?
Sorry for the lengthy discussion but I didn't know how to shorten it

TIA for your help

Joe
 
The one thing you didn't mention that I would ask about is the power supply.
These problems could be caused by a weak power supply. Since you just
upgraded your motherboard and added some new hardware, I would replace the
power supply first. For your hardware, you need at least 400W, maybe even
500W would be better.
 
The power supply is almost new and 435 watts. I can't think of anything else
I can do other than re-install Windows unless you or anyone else has ideas I
can try.

Thanks
Joe
 
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