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Hi,

"Detecting IDE drives" is not an error message, it's telling you what the
system is doing. If it stops here and does not load them, then you have a
problem. As allowing the system to cool off resolves it, then you have a
hardware fault. The (hopefully) easiest one is to reseat or replace the IDE
cables. Otherwise, either the drive holding the system is failing or the
motherboard is.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Porthos" <Porthos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C327AB7C-BF9D-48A6-833C-F1045DBCBBD0@microsoft.com...
> Hi there,
>
> Sometimes when I try and start up my computer it says the error message
> (during startup in MS-DOS mode) "Detecting IDE Drives" Please can someone
> tell me what it means and how to fix it,
>
> the onl;y way I can get around that, is that I have to keep my pc off for
> about 2 hours then it seems to work fine but it can get really annoying,
>
> Thank You,
>
> From Porthos.