Ide hardrive comes and goes in bios

[matt2duo]

ive been having this problem for a while now. i use a sata wd 250gb drive as one drive and a 80gb ide drive as a another. the problem is that i could never get any of my 4 ide hardrives which i know all work to show in the bios or windows. twice now i have somehow by luck been able to get one to show up. i only want to use one along with the sata drive and when i do get one of the ide's to work it stays working until it feels like quiting. anyhwere from like 2 months to a couple weeks. i had it working until today when i took the setup apart to install a thermaltake v1 cooler. ive tried different ide cables and differnet jumper settings on all 4 HDs. Im not a noob but not a proffesional either and would like some input or help please!!!!! P.S. i used the 80 Gb for my games esepicailly for the new medal of honor and call of duty which i cant play now . the cd rom is also sata so the only thing connected to the Hd is itself. ive tried other pwer connecters and still nothing. Please help

 

[pjmelect]

This problem can be caused by the jumper on the hard drive being set incorrectly i.e. to slave instead of master. However in your case I think the problem is probably due to the IDE hard disk controller going faulty on your motherboard. This is not uncommon.

 

[matt2duo]

i figured it. i updated the bios and works great now. replacing mobo soon any way with somthing a littl better for overclocking the e4300. goin for maybe 3.2gh? any suggestions