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For what it's worth, I had a similar error over the weekend on one of my home machines. I got that error, several black--not going to boot anything then, schmuck--screens and eventually it wouldn't move past the hard drive check during POST at all.
Two seperate problems and two seperate solutions, both of which have been mentioned here already.
First, I jarred the SATA line loose while I was cleaning a couple of noisy fans. An easy fix, but one I managed to overlook at first.
Second, The crappy, had it a while, slave drive I had used for the Vista Beta crapped out on me. A quick format of the drive, a few files deleted from the master drive and a repair of XP's MBR and things seemed to work fine for about a day. Last night during an install of Ubuntu, the drive made a horrible noise and finally died.
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