New ThinkCentre 1165 sometimes starts plus-disparition hard drive

I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre 1165C1T in June 2010.

It works under Windows XP.

Sometimes, the machine starts very well.

Sometimes the machine unbootable - is a black screen, etc.  If I enter BIOS setup in this instance, or press F12 to display boot options, the hard drive is not there.

What is a failure with the BIOS? Or the hard drive?  The inhabitants of Lenovo tried flashing the BIOS with the latest update, but it has not fixed the problem.

Very frustrating.

The problem was a faulty motherboard.

Lenovo has changed the motherboard and now its perfect.

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