Rez

In article <87br4rn5ff.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
>Without doing anything with hardware, the last time I booted, instead
>of the MBR being executed, I got garbage.
<snippola>

I don't know if CIH virus would produce the exact symptoms you're
experiencing, but I do know it can trash the CMOS and make it spit
gibberish and/or refuse to boot. Worth checking for, anyway.

Also, I'd be suspicious of an old-fashioned boot-sector virus.

~REZ~