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