Intel 815EEA motherboard - computer not booting

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My workstation is a windows 2000 pro with sp2, using an Intel 815EEA motherboard. This morning I came in to work and had to reboot the computer. However all I got on the reboot was a copyright message from Intel.
This does not sound like a problem with windows booting, seems more like a problem with getting through POST, or something of that sort.
At this stage I cannot reboot using control-alt-delete. I also tried starting the machine with a network boot disk created on a win98 client and used to backup our workstation images and got the same result.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

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It looks like this was a drive failure! After a few reboots, I got windows 2000 to start but while it was starting up I got a popup dialog message, which reads:
"Windows - Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume1\. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this failure elsewhere." The mouse locked up at the same time.
For the help of people who have IBM drives and experience this same problem, one message thread discussing this problem contained this link to a utility that tests IBM hard drives:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/technolo/dft/dftnew.htm

Unfortunately my hard drive is not an IBM drive!
Which raises the question, has anyone tested this utility on a non-IBM drive, or has anyone seen any other utility for non-IBM drives?
Also, anyone else having this experience with failing drives?