winxp crashes and says cannot find NTSTLR (SP?)

[keystroker]

I just upgraded my mobo/cpu/ram. I think its a A7N8X with athlon 1700 xp. I haven't had any problems when I'm using the computer. But sometimes I'll come home after I left my computer on all day and I will turn on the monitor and winxp crashed and it looks like it rebooted or something and on the boot it will say "NTSTLR cannot be found". i'm not sure if its a hardware or software problem. anyone ever ran into this problem?

 

[LiLithTecH]

Have you checked the EVENT LOG to see what
the specific error is when it reboots?

 

[Lord Evermore]

That would be "NTLDR" which is the file used to boot the OS. This error usually happens when your system overheats or has some other problem, and when it crashes and reboots immediately it can't boot properly. As you seem to have found, shutting down and rebooting gets it back up and running. This may be a problem with corrupt or buggy drivers or a cooling problem.

 

[BD231]

N-Force specific problem for me, I've seen it on two boards, both NF2 chipset based. Installed those 2.41's and got the NTLDR error on restart.