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First my 40GB Maxtor drive goes bad. Now my 60GB Seagate drive is acting up. Windows XP is unbootable. It complains about my SYSTEM directory being screwed up and orders me to run a repair install. I'm afriad that just wont help. I'm starting to wonder if it isn't my mother board or power supply that is causing problems. I have had Windows XP on this laptop for some time now running the same applications with roughly the same usage patterns with no problems. I really don't want to have to buy a new motherboard right now, and I'm afriad that's the problem. Damn ASUS K7V.

Does anyone know anything about this board being probelmatic? I've been running it for over a year now and, while it does run a little hot, I haven't had any big problems until the past 2 months or so.

I'm afraid to even boot my machine because I really don't want to lose all the data on this drive like I did on the last. I've been a bad computer user and have absolutely no backups.