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Old 02-06-2005, 11:18 PM   #1
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XP Home stops on Boot

Just got my new rig together, and windows stopped booting on me... WOuld get to the "WINDOWS XP" loading screen and the little running bar onthe bottom just stopped.... THought it was my overclock at first so I tried some different settings.... Stopped same place... Weird... Reset to Default, Clear the CMOS.... Stops again... WTF??? reboot.. System boots into safe mode just fine....

repair WIndows.. ALl goes well........ Hangs on boot again...

RE-Install Windows... All goes well.. Hangs on boot AGAIN...

WTF?

I dont get it..... ANy ideas?

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I had it all the way up to 2.6Ghz Stable.. Ran some benchies, and was going great.. Then this.....

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Old 02-07-2005, 08:12 AM   #2
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Bad hardrive mabey?
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Old 02-07-2005, 10:03 AM   #3
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Doesnt seem to be the hard drive ran a full check and diagnostic..... After some more searches... It seems it may be a Driver conflict of some sort.... Gonna mess with it some more tonight....
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Old 02-07-2005, 04:08 PM   #4
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test your ram or even another stick from a different computer
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Old 02-07-2005, 04:58 PM   #5
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OK it really seems like this is a driver/software issue. Try booting with all your USB devices unplugged. Then if that doesnt work go into safemode and reinstall ALL of your drivers.

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Old 02-07-2005, 06:27 PM   #6
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Was gonna try that, and now my CD Drive wont open and discs in Safe mode...... SO I'm re-Installing again.....

WIsh me luck....
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Old 02-07-2005, 07:31 PM   #7
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Old 02-07-2005, 08:49 PM   #8
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Well, Seems its my NVidia Ethernet COntroller..... System locks every time I go to install the NV Ethernet Driver..... Weird... Disabled it... Using Marvell Ethernet now....
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