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Invalid Hard Drive?!?

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I've posted here about 10 times with problems my computer has had in the last year I've owned it. Here's some specs for off:
128 megs PC 100 ram
32 meg GeForce DDR
Athlon 600
Asus K7V mobo
Windows 98
Western Digital something or other 18 gig hard drive

OK, I've been burdened with the computer from hell. SOOOOOOOOO many problems have gone wrong with this, it's insane.

But for now, there's only 2 things really bugging me. First and most important; if I restart my computer or shut it down, when my computer tried to boot up windows I get the "Invalid System Disk Replace disk and try again" (or something to that effect) error. At first I thought it was just a floppy or something, but it my horror, there was no floppy or cd in my computer. As in, my hard drive is fried. That was about a month ago, and I got a new hard drive. And it wored fine until about a few days back when once again my computer got the same error. I can get in to DOS with a boot disk and I can read and copy the files on my hard drive to a floppy BUT I can NOT boot up windows. So basically, if my computer restarts or shuts down, I have to fdisk and format it. The only saving grace is that if I restart Windows only (ie. I hold down shift while restarting) it works fine.
What the hell is wrong with my computer? My mobo? My hard drive? (Though, that seems unlikely seeing as how this one is brand ass new and worked fine for a week. And it happened to my computer BEFORE this hard drive as well).
Any help about that would be great.

And second, but not that important......
I get a 1591 on 3d Mark 2k, and my machine got about 4000+ before it went crazy on my ass. Are there mobo drivers I need to get or something? I have the vid drivers, and my computer runs fine from what I can tell (though there's minimal programs on it to test that). Any ideas as to the major drop in performace?

Thanks guys, anything to help would be great,
oh and I'd prefer and solutions that DON'T invlove shutting down my computer 🙂


thanks
 
Have you installed the Via 4 in 1 drivers? If not, that could easily explain your low benchmark numbers? If you do have the 4 in 1 drivers installed, have you enabled bus mastering for your hard drive?

I don't know what to tell you re your hard drive/system errors. Are you oveclocking this system? If so, what are your settings? If your FSB is set too high that might be the cause of the problem? Do you have a burner? If you do, I might suggest you Ghost an image of your drive over to a CD-R, and save yourself a lot of time reinstalling Windows, until you figure out the cause(s) of your boot problem.
 
No, I haven't installed the Via 4 in 1 drivers. Is that on Asus.com?
I'm not over clocking either, this is all authentic errors.
Oh, and I don't have a burner either.

I'm not willing to lose all my crap again trying to fdisk, I'm about 99% sure it won't help any.





Any other suggestions??
 
FDISK /MBR won't cause you to loose anything. Only the Master Boot Record is re-written. Might fix your problem.
 
FAQ, try what DaddyG said, you won't lose any data, /MBR simply rewrites the Master Boot Record so it points to valid locations on your hard drive.

Also, go to Via Website for 4 in 1 drivers.
 
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