booting problem

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used win2k server on Soyo motherboard PC (AMD Duron, 512 Mb RAM, 1.3 GHz).
recently could not boot from HD - first it started self-booting by itself before getting to login screen.
HD works normal on another PC.
i suspected CPU fan - it was old, and showed high temperatues in CMOS. Replaced with new one, temp is fine now.
But still can't boot normal neither in normal mode, nor in Safe mode, nor from startup floppy - now it freezes on initial stages, i.e. when passes white Win2000 screen, or turns screen to blue with different error messages like:
- inaccessible boot device,
- Bad pool caller
- ntfs file system
etc.

i have old HD with win98. it boots, gets to a screen with login/password and freezes again

I changed a RAM 512 on another - 256 Mb, the freezing continues.

In CMOS changed settings:
- Halt On - from ALL Errors to No errors
- Power management - Disable
- Fan Off Control - Disable

does not help

in DOS mode PC works fine for a long time, no freezing

any ideas what and how to check?
does all these symptoms mean that motherboard has problems?

is there any utility which i can run under DOS to check RAM, MB, CPU, power, etc.

thanks in advance for any advices

 

[stduc]

You can't take a hard drive from one PC and expect it to boot and the O/S to work on another PC with a different CPU & mobo. All the drivers will be incorrect!

A likely scenario to me is that the CPU was shutting down when it was running hot. This could have corrupted the HDD as writes would have been uncompleted.

You could try doing a repair from the windows CD-ROM.

You can check the RAM and CPU with memtest86 from

http://www.memtest86.com/

You can test the HDD by downloading the manufactureres diagnostics and running them. You can possibly fix the HDD with spinrite available from

http://www.grc.com