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Or it could be as simple as a bad ribbon cable.
I had that problem on my A3k. I opened it up to
replace the battery and by unplugging and pluggung
in the Hd the cable went bad. I knew the drive was
good but by poking around in there sometimes it would
work and other times it wouldn't. I replaced the ribbon
cable and have had no more problems.
Its unlikely that the battery is a problem. I removed
the battery from my A3k a couple years ago (minor MoBo
damage) and it runs fine without it. The only problem
is if I need a date stamp on an EMail or whatever I have
to set the time in prefs.
