Re: XP won't restart just hangs with black screen & fans/HDs still run

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"Chopperscroggs" <Chopperscroggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi World

Would anyone out there be able to help with my problem? I've recently
purchased a new ASUS P5K premium Wifi mobo, Intel E8500 CPU, ASUS EN8400GS
graphics card & 4GB of PC2-8500 1066mhz Kingston HyperX RAM.

I am into Audio production and so have a dual boot setup going on using a
partitioned 40GB IDE drive as my Boot HD. 1 partition has XP pro with
(currently) SP2 installed which I use for internet use and the other
partition has windows XP pro SP1 installed for audio use. The SP1
partition
doesn't go near the internet so has no anti virus or anything like that to
slow it down.

I've had great sucess with this exact same setup on my current and old PC,
and at first thought all was well with the new build. However, it now
seems
that I've got a serious problem as I can boot into either partition OK
from a
cold startup, but as soon as I need to restart due to installing software
or
whatever, the PC shuts down correctly but instead of restarting all I get
is
a black screen & the fans/HDs/DVD drives are still spinning.

I then hold the power button in to force quit but then the PC doesn't seem
to want to boot up again, I just get ablack screen again. This is
complicated
further by the fact that it seems sometimes windows is doing something,
because if there's a disc in the DVD drive it spins up and stays spinning
until I'm forced to force quit the damned thing again.

I've tried running a few diagnostic checks from the ultimate boot CD and
the
HDs, RAM and CPU all seem fine. I thought it might be a duff graphics card
but surely it wouldn't work at all from the cold start if that was the
case
and I don't have another PCIe G card to test this theory. I've tried
putting
the XP disc back in and doing an "R" repair on "fixboot" too and this did
squat too. In fact after doing so and the PC restarted I still had the
same
problem!

Any ideas, tests, theories please let me know!

Cheers

P.S I've disabled the ASUS' onboard Wifi in the BIOS.

This really sounds like a power supply problem. Try swapping in a new one
and see if that fixes the problem. Many stock systems come with barely
adequate power supplies or people cheap out when building their own systems.

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Xandros



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