Personally, I don't belive that SP2 can be the cause of MBR corruption. I'd rather suspect memory leaks or something like that in mprime 2.46, that causes crash in some cases - ...note, the MBR is NOT written to during normal operations at all, in fact, tis ONLY written when you create/change/delete partitions.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm gonna step out on a limb and suggest that perhaps the highly stressed processor/memory/system corrupted a SECTOR ADDRESS being written to the disk controller, causing it to write to sector zero rather than what it should have.
Or prime95 might[1] write address in memory, which contains data about sector to write (generally - system/other application memory address)...
If it's just a matter of stressed component, then it also should happen under 2.39... Especially on PIII (Alberto's machine).
[1] Don't know if it's really possible, just my speculation.
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