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S-ATA raid setup not booting after reset cmos

arrrh.

please help.

here is my spec.

MSI K8T Neo mobo
AMD 64-bit Athlon 3200
2 x S-ATA maxtor 160g Hd's (setup on RAID striped)

Ok, I made the mistake of tweaking my memory timings to try and boost perfomance.  This caused my PC to not boot.

So I cleared the CMOS, and then it booted.

But now I get.

NTLDR is missing
Press Ctl Alt Del to restart

I've pressed TAB to get into the raid setup, and it shows both HD's, the first is stripe 0, the second is stripe 1.

I've even seleted them both, and changed to "Boot", but it still stays the same.

Please somebody tell me, I've not got to reformat the raid array and reinstall a fresh!

Is there something I'm not doing.

High points, as I need a quick fix.

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Reinstall the master boot record from the recovery console
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after the cmos was reset, the boot order changed.

however i found to my surprise that the boot sector was on an old hard drive, not the raid drives, so i couldn't get my head round why it was failing.