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Hardware problem hurts Windows not Linux

Asked by quad341 in General Computer Systems

Tags: any, bios, find, linux, problem

I currently am running the following system:
Athlon-64 3200+
Asus K8V Deluxe (original, not se)
512 mb Kingston Hyper-X DDR 3500 (433)
Primary IDE:
-120gb WD 5400 hdd (Master)
-300gb Maxtor 7200 hdd (Slave)
Secondary IDE:
- Asus 16x DVD-ROM (Master)
- Lite-On 12x DVD-RW (Slave)
NVidia GeForce 6800 128mb by BFG

I put it together in january of 04 (except for the dvd burner, 300gb hdd, and 6800) and didn't have any problems really except when i would do something stupid.  No problems with upgrades either.  All was running fine.  I was duel booting XP Pro SP2 and SuSE Linux 9.2 without problem (GRUB).

Yesterday, after transporting my computer over to a friend's house, Windows refused to boot.  Also, the computer stopped booting to most floppies and cds.  I found that every flavor of linux was fine for it to boot to (from floppy, cd, or hdd) but it would not boot to most versions of dos.  No windows boot discs would boot.  BING (Boot-It Next Generation) booted, but it just errored when trying to read the mbr or sometime close to that.  The ultimate boot cd (FreeDOS) booted, but i could not load any of the programs.

I currently am not seeing any problems in my SuSE install, so i'm just using that.  I do have uses for Windows and booting to a lot of those discs though.  I'm not sure what is causing the problem.  I checked all the connections and couldn't find anything loose, nor anything making a difference.  My BIOS seems to recognize everything correctly and is successfully POSTing every time.

Any help is appreciated.  Even any tests that i could run would be great.  Thanks
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