System wont boot.... Crazy smiley face

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Rexse7en44

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As the title says, my system wont boot. It gets power, but I can go into the BIOS and everything. Once I get passed the screen where I can hit delete to endter the BIOS, a all black screen comes up with a tiny smily face that comes about 1/5 of the way across the screen and stays there. I cant do anything except for ctrl + Alt + Del... The specs are as follows:

p4 2.80c Ghz - 800 FSB - HT
ASUS P4P800
Seagate 80gb 7200 rpm IDE H.D.
ATI Radeon 9800pro 128mb video
1GB Kingston pc3200 value RAM
Onboard Sound
Win2k Pro

The System did this yesterday and I thought I got a virus. So I reformatted the drive, and reinstalled windows. I had no problems, got everything download, updated, restarted about 20 times. Then I shut down my computer, took a nap, and when I woke up 3 hours later, It started doing the same damn thing... Anyone have any ideas on what it could be, or past experiences that were simliar? Thanks much!!

-Scott
 
I've seen it when ntloader (ntldr) has gotten corrupted before. Try running some hard disk diagnostics.
 
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