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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
Sometimes these things happen when they should not and when there is no logic behind it.
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There always is logic behind it - it is often just too complex to be "obvious".
Most of the times its not worth the effort to really dig deep and find the exact reason and most people dont even bother anymore when they realise it takes more then 10 minutes.
If you want a generic approach without having to do too much yourself, then you can boot a CD with knoppix linux on it in both configurations (with and without IDE HD in this case) and use "dmesg" to see what linux said during bootup. Linux drivers contain a lot of bugfixes for hardware problems (for example misconfigurations) and usually they mention and try to deal with them in the software code during bootup.
Another way would be to use something like SiSoft Sandra or Dr. Hardware but those require windows. You could use Barts PE-Builder for Windows to burn a bootable CD to use those tools in case your windows installation doesnt boot anymore. In case you have a problem booting from CD/DVD in a faulty configuration setup, you could just transfer the boot image to a 512MB USB stick if your BIOS allows to boot from USB sticks.
I have posted links in different threads to diagnosis tools in this forum during the last 2 or 3 weeks, but often even creating a boot-cd or disk to run a diag-tool seems already to be too much of an effort
