"Pete" <not@this.address> wrote in message
news:dcgCh.308199$QY6.267020@fe1.news.blueyonder.c o.uk...
> Hi
>
> I recently set up a system with an Asus A7A266 motherboard. I installed
> windows ME and all was fine, then the next day i started the machine up
> and got a boot disk failure message.

> Any bofins out there who thow what's causing this?

Bad capacitors on the mainboard.