"John Johnson" wrote in message
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All fairly new.
MSI 645 P2 MB
3 ghz chip.

SATA and ATA drive
ATI 9600 AIW card.

This evening while running a mail program from my secondary ATA drive,
the drive disappeared. In wasn't in My Computer.

I rebooted checked bios and it wasnt there. So unpluged the drive
booted and then rebooted with it pluged back in and it was there, no
problems.

A few minutes later on another reboot, nothing on the screen. I
thought that maybe the video connector had come loose when I moved the
computer so secured it, still nothing Had another video card, put
that in, still nothing. Turned the montor on while unplugged from the
computer, got the normal test screens.

Plugged everything back in and now everything works again.

For how long? It sounds to me like you have an iffy power supply. -Dave