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Nvidia Boot Agent Keep Coming

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waterboy787

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My computer was running fine for the last 2 months. Yesterday, I restarted my comp and this Nvidia Boot Agent came up. I resetted my CMOS and it worked fine afterwards.

Today, I was testing my bart PE builder disc and afterwards I restarted again and the agent came up again. I've sone some reserach and it looks like my motherboard can't detect my primary boot drive so its trying to boot off the network.

Any possible ideas? I don't understand how I didn't change anything and my bios detects all my drives primarily that it won't boot. I've tried resetting hte CMOS and unplugging all my drives. It keeps coming up and I don't know hoow to fix it.

My specs:
AN35n-Ultra w/ mobile 2400xp & 1 gig of dual ram
1 x Maxtor Diamondmax 10 16mb cache drive PATA
1 x IBM/Hitachi 120GXP 120gig 8mb cache

(The only change I've done recently was mess with Windows services, but that was a couple of days ago and it booted fine earlier)


If anyone has any ideas please let me know!
 
I would go to Shuttle and see if there is a BIOS update for your mobo that addresses this issue.
 
thanks for the prompt reply Doug. that's why i love hardforums!

I believe I have the latest bios..but I believe I've figured ito ut. I just used fixmbr from the repair console and rewrote my drives boot sectors.

On another note, can someone explain why and how a boot sector would get corrupted??
 
A) Virus
B) Corrupt data in memory that gets written to the hard disk
C) Sky-high bus frequencies that cause overheating or errors in southbridge integrated SATA ports
D) Botched multi-boot Linux installs (can also happen when dual booting Windows only, for example installing 2K Pro after XP Pro)

These are the reasons that have either happened to me or I can think of as being fairly common (or both:))
 
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