Sata drives: boot order
Phoenix-Award Bios. 3 SATA drives, 500GB with C: boot sector and 2 x 160gb. No IDE any more, but 1 floppy (yes!)
I am getting occasional BIOS boot order resets. There seems to be no logic in when. I have done the memory card seating, new CMOS batt.
In Bios the drives are Drive0, 500GB, and then the two 160s as 1 and 2. In Bios Hard Drive boot order, , when all is working, SATA Drive 2 M (500gb), Drive 3M, Drive 4M.
When the boot order resets it puts Drive 4M as primary boot and thus requires 'mangling'. There is no boot sector on 4M.
1) Why does the drive designation change between the basic Bios Drive list and Hard Drive boot order ie why does Drive 0 become drive 2M?
2) Is there anything I can do to stop the re-shuffle?
I have just set BIOS to 'Default' setting and await results to see if that will jog its memory.