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HDD Controller Failure Press F1 to continue.
If the CMOS Setup information does not match the actual drive geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors), it should be corrected. Some BIOS Setup programs are able to obtain this information directly from the drive. Failing that, many new IDE drives have the drive geometry conveniently printed on a label on top of the drive. Otherwise, you'll need to consult your drive manufacturer or its Technical Support BBS. Or ask a friend or colleague who has the same drive.
A bad Master Boot Record/Partition Table can be fixed by doing an FDISK /NEWMBR (recent versions of the DOS FDISK are reported as supporting a similar feature with the syntax FDISK /MBR).
IRQ and I/O address (IOA) conflicts can located by a careful examination of the manuals of all adapters in the system. More often they are located by removing all non-critical adapters, then replacing adapters one by one until the problem recurs. Note that the last adapter replaced is only one of two (or more) contributing to the problem; you may want to remove all but that adapter and see if the problem disappears, then replace the remaining adapters until the second "IRQ sharer" is located.
Once located, IRQ and IOA problems can generally be fixed by reassigning IOAs or IRQ levels used by one or more adapters.
Cables and adapters can be swapped with known working units to narrow down the problem cause.
An item I haven't seen listed is the mother of 'em all - "The Mother Board".
Resetting CMOS Parameters which recurrently fail are a good indicator of hard drive and/or motherboard failure. With appropriate high-end software &/or hardware diagnostic tools such problems can be isolated.