Could it be the cooling problem? I have worked on a PC with similar problem and turned out the HD was too hot. However, if the system is cool, either the boot sector was written by virus or the HD is dying.

Regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan

> Completely off-topic but I was wondering if anyone's had this problem
before
> on a laptop. Mine's being difficult lately and since yesterday I've turned
> it on several times only to have a black screen with the words 'Operating
> System Not Found' after the Compaq boot screen. This symptom's accompanied
> by a clicking noise from the harddrive.

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