You just never know. I think that is mostly caused by heat so I suppose it could happen rather quickly. Hopefully it's something else though, most everything else can be worked out, but not leaky caps!
Indeed. The fact that it seems to be arbitrary drives does point to something deep in the motherboard rather than anything else. A dodgy cable, socket or component would only affect the recognition of the one component. It's irritating.
Yup. Those are usually the things I get stuck trying to sort out at work. The things you see once every 3 years or have never seen before. Some days I hate computers!
I had a complete failure to boot today, which was presumably the C Drive not being picked up. I swapped the C Drive's SATA lead to the 8th slot and so far, several reboots and no issues.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 7 Feb 2014 10:23