Problems Remain After Reinstall

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Hi,

My PSU failed recently and I tried using my Pentium 4 computer with an
old PSU and found that it would hang at the Winodws XP screen with the
blue bar moving across the screen unless I started it in safe mode. I
tried installing a new 450W PSU designed for Pentium 4.

I checked my disk using the Hitachi Drive Fitness test which said it
was fine.

I tried restoring from my Norton Ghost 12 backup from the startup CD
(not in Windows). It went to 67% and stopped so I tried again and I got
an EBAB0003 error so I formatted the C drive, installed Windows and
tried again from within Windows and got the same error. I am able to
restore individual files however so I started doing that which was very
slow and failed occasionally which I think is because I hadn't got USB 2
drivers installed.

I then installed Kaspersky Internet Security and my Wireless PCI card
so that I could get online and install XP Service Pack 2 so that I
would have the USB 2 drivers. I was able to install the card, but
afterwards it wanted to restart but if I did that normally I got the
same problem as before I installed my new PSU, formatted and
reinstalled Windows, Windows just hanged at the Windows XP screen with
the blue bar scrolling across and I had to restart with the last good
configuration.

I was able to get online after installing the PCI card (without
restarting) and install Service Pack 2 twice but each time after the
restart Windows would hang at the same screen and I would have to
restart with the last good configuration again after which Service Pack
2 was no longer installed.

Each time I restart successfully my PCI card appears to still be
installed but either can't detect my wireless network or refuses to
connect to it and I have to reinstall it if I want to get online.

Please can someone tell me how to stop this happening and set Windows
up again as it's driving me mad at the moment?

Thanks,
Joe




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