KT4-Ultra IDE Problem

i've been running a kt4-ulta with barton 2500+ which most of the time runs fine but every now and again the comp doesn't boot "primary master boot fail" so when i go into the bios the hard drive has the name muddled up (instead of "maxtor" it has something like "atxmor") the only way i can seem to fix this is by clearing the cmos but im now getting a bit sick of re-doing all my settings. i was wondering if this is a common fault or my board is f***ed.
any help would be great

Hi,
Bad IDE cable....
Harddisk on the way to die....
Ram problem....
CPU cooler problem...
There are many things that can cause this

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