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Hyper02   06-14-2009 at 10:22:39 PM

hello i'm having a problem with my pc it keeps restarting at random times it can be ok most of the day then restart and say the next day restart every 1hour or so any way i tryed a reformat on my hard drives and both of them are set as primary is this ok or have one got to be set as a slave i'v got windows on my 200gb and 500gb is for the games i play i'm thinking it mite be one of the hard drives making the pc restart but is there anyway i can tell if it is


thanks

Hyper02


Message edited by Hyper02 on 06-14-2009 at 11:05:45 PM
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sturm   06-15-2009 at 06:30:05 PM
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Are they SATA or IDE drives? SATA are all "masters" as there is only one drive per channel. IDE uses master and slave.

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