At start-up my computer have twice get stuck at detecting IDE drives... it wouldn't walk on to the subsequent..?

..step. Why? Hitting the restart button (so far) get it past this member where it get stuck. Is this a registry problem or hardware? Will it happen more and more frequently or is it a two sour (it's happened twice immediately in 10 days). What's best to do to preserve the machine reliable?

At start-up my computer have twice get stuck at detecting IDE drives... it wouldn't walk on to the subsequent..?

Change you CMOS (BIOS) freestyle on your motherboard. $2 at Walmart. If it is a mainstream motherboard the freestyle will be a CR2032 watch style freestyle. Should be changed every other year.

While you are in in attendance clean out the casing, fans and processor heatsink.
Make sure you don't own USB flash drive in while you try to boot...sometimes they can rationale it to hang approaching that. You might also want to run a test on your frozen drive.
It is quite possible that one of your strong disks is about to die, probably going on for time to back up your essential files if you haven't recently. The symptoms of intermittent inveterate problems point to an imminent disk disaster...



Yoi is also correct, USB flash drives can interfere in that attitude although they will usually persist until you remove them.



IF you aren't concerned in the region of shutting down and opening your computer up, you could try a bit of troubleshooting - check adjectives ide cable at both ends and make sure they are plugged properly and not worn out, ditto for power cords check that your memory and all pci / graphics cards are properly seated surrounded by their sockets... If the hanging ways becomes constant you could consequently test respectively IDE device by disconnecting all of them and trying to boot beside each sequentially, on any ide direct. Other than that, start saving for a fresh disk I guess ;)