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Post overheat boot problems

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When I arrived home the other day, my 9 year old was trying to play counterstrike on our Celeron 366 system and was having lock up problems. I also smelled something burning. Since all 3 of my boys were occupying all three systems I assumed it was just the heat produced by all 3 systems being under the load of 3D games. Wrong!! I rebooted and checked the BIOS, and it was running 166 degrees core and 144 degrees in the case! 🙁 I checked the back of the case and the power supply fan wasn't turning. Took it apart and got the fan spinning again. But the system wouldn't boot to windows. I ran the Quantum diagnostic and it said the drive was okay. Then last night it did boot several times, so I thought, great. But then I did the hard drive clean up and deleted some of the scandisk files in the root directory, and now it won't boot again. It hangs with a dead mouse at the network sign on screen. Do I need to just try to reinstall windows from the command prompt? Will it be necessary to do a full reformat and reinstall? If so, do I need to run fdisk first? Appreciate any input and comments. Frankly I am glad that the rest of my components survived. BTW, it is a Soyo SY71-WM motherboard with the Intel 810 chipset, with a Quantum Fireball Lct10 hard drive, Voodoo 3 30000 PCI card, Diamond Sonic Impact S90 sound card. Thanks in advance.
Chuck
 
Well, I tried to start over. Used the system disk and ran fdisk at the A: prompt. Went through the steps, looked like it was a go. Then typed in format c:/s, and it formatted, but then at the very end, instead of asking for a label, it said cannot write BOOT. Format terminated. HELP! Tried to go back in and run it again, and now it won't run fdisk, says wrong MS-DOS version. I have no clue what is going on. The Quantum diagnostic says that the drive is fine. It is properly recognized at POST. Would sure appreciate any help as my usual buddy who bails me out of these things is in Atlanta this weekend. I am trying to learn about all this stuff. But this is strange. Could it be a problem with the IDE controller? Could I have burned out my motherboard? (It did get a "little hot" when the fan on the power supply died.) I could try the drive in one of my working systems, but can't afford to have more than one down at a time. Could there be a BIOS setting that is fouling me up? I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions or ideas.
Chuck
 
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