Long time to boot and BSOD

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, unsure if it's hardware, driver or OS related.

Having a strange issue. PC worked fine this morning, turned it on just now and it got as far as the Jmicron controller saying "detecting drives please wait"
Normally this takes seconds, however it now takes about 2 minutes. Eventually windows boots as normal. I made no installs or updates between the time i used the PC last.

Once windows has booted I keep getting BSOD's - specifically "device_driver_power_failure"
I have also noticed a drive not showing, I have an old IDE drive i keep documents etc from previous formats on
Not sure where to start on this one as i'm new to windows 8, any suggestions?

PC specs as follows:
Win 8 Pro (genuine copy!) 64 bit
Intel i5 2500K 3.3GHZ
G Skill 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333mhz Ripjaws Memory Kit CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V (although only currently running one as the other is being RMA'd)
Asus P8P67-M R3.0 Socket 1155 8 channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Asus GTX 570

Drives:
1 OCZ Vertex SSD
2x WD black caviar in RAID0
1x IDE

http://www.google.com/#q=device+driv...iw=853&bih=398

I am aware of how to use google. Thank you for your valuable input.
I just tried to find the dump file from the crash and it is 0kb and has nothing in it
If / when it happens again i'll see if there is a new minidump created.

I wasn't aware that you were aware of how to use Google. Sorry to waste your time.

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Originally Posted by 123Mags456

... Jmicron controller saying "detecting drives please wait" ... Normally this takes seconds, however it now takes about 2 minutes. ... I have also noticed a drive not showing, I have an old IDE drive ...

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Sounds like the system is having a problem detecting the old IDE hard drive.

Power down, re-seat all of the IDE connections, power back up and check to see if it's being detected in the CMOS/BIOS Setup.

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JMicron® JMB361 controller :
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices , navy blue
1 x eSATA 3Gb/s port(s), red

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Yup. Looks like a problem with the IDE drive. What kind of optical drives do you have?