HDD Group Boot Priority gets reset occasionally but not by me

System Information:
o  Pavilion H8-1050z
o  AMI BIOS 6.12
o  Windows 7 64-bit
o  Three internal SATA disk drives, but only one is bootable. Other two are user data.
I deleted the user data disks from HDD Group Boot Priority, but something puts them back at times.
When this happens, I get a boot error "No active partition".
This is easily fixed by entering BIOS setup and re-ordering or deleting the user data disks from HDD Group Boot Priority.
What resets HDD Group Boot Priority? I'm not doing it. Do I need to sequence the SATA cables?

My apologies for the slow response. I opened the case and verified the connections. They are in the table below. The Windows 7 disk is plugged into the first SATA port. This makes it puzzling since the BIOS ought to obey the sequence of the connections. The only things I do to the system is connect or disconnect external USB drives, flash memory drives and a scanner. The last time I had the case open was June 2011. That was when I installed DISK 1 and 2. Since that time, the HDD Boot Group Order has changed three times. I have no idea what I did to cause the BIOS error. Each time, I just executed shutdown and the next day I got the error when I powered on the PC.
The last time  changed the HDD Group Boot Priority was
1 DISK2
2 EXTERNAL USB DRIVE
3 DISK 0
4 DISK 1
5 EXTERNAL USB DRIVE
The internal cables have been connected in this order since June 2011:
SATA PORT, COLOR, DISK NUMBER, DISK CONTENT
SATA1, DARK BLUE, DISK 0, WINDOWS 7
SATA2, WHITE, DISK 1, DOWNLOADED APPLICATION INSTALLERS,IMAGE BACKUPS, LOGS
SATA3, LIGHT BLUE, DISK 2, AUDIO, VIDEO, BOOKS
SATA4, PEACH, BD/CD/DVD, BLUE RAY DRIVE
SATA5, RED, NO CONNECTION
SATA6, BLACK, NO CONNECTION
The motherboard is an H-RS880- micro-ATX form factor (ALOE), Chipset AMD 785G.

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