Operating System Corrupt?

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I have been through two motherboards and on my second hard drive. The latest
symptom is a couple of days ago while booting up I received an error message
that my harddrive was not located. Reset and it worked fine. A couple of
days later no hard drive again. Attempted a number of approaches including
completely reloading WIN2k. That worked, until I powered off and then
powered back up, again, no hard drive. This time used win2k repair. First
did a FIXBOOT. This worked. Again powering down and back up same result.
Next time Fixboot didn't work. Did a fixboot and a fixmbr. Success again
until p/dwn/up. Ran chkdsk from Win2k repair all look good although it did
say there was an error. No msg though or diagnostic. Last time around and
not powering off my system. Any thoughts that maybe a virus might be on my
motherboard that scratches my boot directory? Noticed when this all started
that when powering down on shutdown, Win2k was starting to take longer and
longer. Internet game played when I started noticing was Unreal Tournament -
Assault on Terror. There are some hackers in there. How do I protect the
boot sector on shutdown for at time for that matter. Thanks.
 
You may have other hardware problems. Of course you need to be using a firewall,
updated virus protection that scans all email also, keep current with critical
updates at Windows Updates, scan for parasites at least weekly, use a complex user
passwords [never using the same password for online access that you use to logon to
the computer], and ideally implement minimum security settings for Internet Explorer
as described in the link below.

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

No I don't believe you have a "motherboard" virus. But I would suspect possibly the
following - bad hard drive cable, bad onboard controller [unlikely if you had this
happen on two motherboards], overheating cpu [clogged heatsink/bad fan], flaky ram,
or flaky power supply. I have seen a lot of strange problems resulting from bad ram
and bad or underpowered power supply. You might also want to run it in safe mode for
a while to see if the situation improves which would indicate a problem with a
startup program/service/driver and look in Event Viewer for any pertinent clues. ---
Steve
 
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