Boot Problem on detecting IDE drives

Hi all,

Im having a bit of a problem with my computer.

Its a home built, 10 month old Quad Core with a Gigabite Motherboard.

It was working fine earlier today. Then i put it on to standby for an hour, went to start it up again and got a blue screen.

So, i restarted it, and now it hangs on the Gigabite Motherboard startup screen.

There are 5 options at the bottom (Enter Setup, BIOS, QFlash etc). None of these options work, exept the 'Enter Post Screen'

So i did that, and now it hangs on the post screen!!!!

It finds the processor fine,
It then sais: 'Memory Testing : 4193200K OK'

and thats it.

Once again, all the options at the bottom (BIOS, Setup, Q-Flash etc) dont work... theres just nothing!

Once or twice i have got it to say 'Detecting IDE Drives...', but i cant seem to get it to do it again.

This is really worrying me as i think i may have a dodgy hard drive!

Any help anyone could give would be great!

Thanks in advance
John

Boot off your OS disc into the repair console. Try running chkdsk /r