I have made no hardware or Bios changes in months but two odd problems have popped up in recent weeks.

1) For several days every time I tried to boot up I received a Error Message saying me C: (hard drive) could not be found. I removed the HD cable at both ends and cleaned the cable and pins. After doing that several time the Error Message went away and I could boot up without error.

2) Several weeks passed without an error but now I am getting the following: "Diskette drive 1 Seek failure". The error appears and then the boot up continues fine. The floppy drive also works fine. I have remove the cable from the driver to the mother board and cleaned both the cable and pins. I have also removed the power cable and cleaned the cable and the diskette pins but the error continues to show and then the boot up continues.

Does anyone have any ideas?

keltic tom