H55m-e21 msi computer loses boot drive

h55m-e21 msi computer loses boot drive once every week or so sometimes it might go for a couple of weeks before it does it again, then you have to go into the cmos and reset the boot drive and it is fine again for another week or so/ i have replaced the hard drive with a brand new samsung 750GB and it still does it and it is getting annoying.

It could be an intermittant problem in the 5V PSU circuit. Maybe try a test with an adequate amp PSU borrowed from a relative, friend, or coworker to power your system. If the PSU is modular or has an unused extra, try with another SATA power cable on the existing PSU.

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Hey guys, recently purchased a MSI H55M-E21 mobo. Got everything setup and I am having a few issues with the BIOS.
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Quote from: zsde on 20-February-11, 03:49:16
Suggest you contact MSI technical. The CPU support list here http://www.msi.com/product/mb/H55M-E21.html#/?div=CPUSupport lists your CPU as n/aIt may be that your board does not fully support the CPU. All the supported CPUs are 73W and 83W, yours is 95W.
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That contradicts CPU support at MSI Europe:
http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=prodcpu2&prod_no=2150&maincat_no=1
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computer turns itself off and says boot drive not found, what do i do?

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Quote from: hybriduk on 14-October-05, 01:13:01
Yeah it will be fine plus prescott is better
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Dual processor G4 with 3 hard drive, all of which are bootable drives with 10.4.7 installed:
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ii. TechTools Pro shows no hardware problems and whatever glitches it has found were repaired.
iii. Disk Utilities consistently returns "Volume passed verification."
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I haven't had a kernel panic following any of the last 50+ restarts that have accompanied my attempted diagnostics.
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At this stage I don't have a clue. The white towel is about to be waved.
If the problem is the Adaptec SCSI card, I don't know how to test it since it obviously has to be installed to enable drive A to mount.
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I am the original poster on this thread.
Turns out that the culprit behind all my boot problems was the battery on my 5 year old Quicksilver G4. Replaced the battery and all is back to normal.
FWIW, for any Quicksilver owners with SCSI cards, be aware that you can create boot problems for your SCSI drive by zapping your PRAM. As part of my diagnostics I did zap the PRAM but that turned out not to be a problem.
Adaptec's site does include a workaround should you have problems after zapping the PRAM. This specifically covers the PowerDomain 29160 SCSI card/2930U card, which I have.

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