Boot-Up problem

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Steve

My computer was fine this morning. When I got home at
lunch it had on the screen NTDLR missing and told me to
hit CTRL-ALT-DEL. After doing so it rebooted. I did
some checking in the BIOS and the boot-up options and one
of my hard drives(the one with windows on it) and my dvd-
r and cdrom have dissappeared, one of my hard drives was
the only device still there(the one I use for storage).
I left if for the rest of the day shut off and turned it
back on to write down the message and it suddenly
worked. About 30 minutes later it is not working again
(same as before). I am thinking the motherboard it shot,
but any suggestions would be great.
 
depending on the hard drive you can download a utility
from the manufactures web site ie: maxtor,samsung,westren
digital then boot the computer from a win98 boot disk then
put the disk with the utility in the run the program to
test the drive.To me it sounds like hard drive problem not
motherboard
 
You mean NTLDR. This is the loader for Windows. If your primary drive
with Windows is not seen, the system will not find this file. You can
try updating the BIOS and hope that fixes it. Double check all the
connections as well to make sure nothing came loose. Here is a bit more
info on Missing NTLDR just for kicks:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314057
 
Check with the elctricity company to see if your house has suffered a blackout / brownout during the time you were away.

Or was there any electrical storm activity.

This behaviour as descibed by you, is usually as a result of power surges affecting the hard drive. Most ofetn the drive never functions successfully again, just goes through an agonising 'cancerous' death.
 
Check these in this order. First the surge protector and make sure
nothing is wrong with it, then the Power Supply for the computer, then
move on to the harddrive/optical drives. Usually a surge will hit the
breakers first, then the surge protector, if it passes that, it will hit
the PSU, which often can act as a surge protector if you have a good
one. I have even seen a couple act as a UPS which was pretty cool.
 
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