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HD problem after HD problem! Pls Help

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Sup, I have a 1.33athlon/abit a7m-266 mobo that was running fine on an IBM deathstar but you know the story on those so i bought a 200gb maxtor and installed win2k on it, no problems. So 2 weeks ago, the first partition with the win2k boot on it had a problem.
"Error loading OS", fixboot, fixmbr, nothing worked. I had to reformat, so I reinstall win2k again on the same partition, seems
to work ok, reboot like the 6th time after program installs. I get:

NTLDR Missing
Hit CTRL+Alt+Del to contine

So I format yet again, reinstall win2k after a few days, SAME message after reboot, NTLDR Missing, etc. I did check that there is no floppy in the drive, that no cd is in the drive, that the boot drive is set correctly in the bios. Do you guys think this repetitive problem is with the hd or the mobo/bios, since it's an older mobo with a large hd? Ive also done integrity checks on the 200gb drive and they all come up clean with no problems with the hd, so I really don't know what the problem is.

Thanks
 
That smells like data corruption. Usually a problem with the cpu/mem/mobo/PSU.

Just follow the process of elimination for any component you can. Probably a problem with the PSU or mobo somewhere. I would say the first thing to try is to back off of your overclock to see if it's a stability issue or something that's just plain broken.

Have you changed anything lately that could have made your system unstable? What kinda CPU temps are you getting? Try running memtest86 as well, just as an outside shot...
 
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