Re: No start after re-install.

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From: RW (junk.mail.heaven_at_NOSPAM.gmail.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:28:00 -0600

I had a very similar issue with a driver "update" from Windowsupdate. I
reformatted the computer several times and every time, I would scream
through boot up, then run Windows Update and it was actually installing the
"latest" signed driver for a firewire/USB/NIC Combo card from SIIG (31x2 to
be exact). It was in fact the latest driver available from the vendor also,
but the driver installed with base XP install worked just fine. I now have
everything working fine, just whenever I go to Windows Update, I just skip
right past the drivers.

By the way for those who will tell you that you can always roll back the
driver update, I know that this feature is "available" but it does NOT work
with this peice of hardware.

Neither Microsoft nor SIIG would offer any help with this issue but when I
removed the hardware from the box, everything started up quick as ever.

Now I am running on older drivers and everything is working great.

hope this helped.

RW

"Jim White" <Jim White@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C192680-F624-4AD2-8277-7D52C8B34F1D@microsoft.com...
> I had to reformat and reload XP on a new HDD. After all was said and
done,
> the OS continues to hang when starting. I have reformatted and reloaded
> three times with the same result. I install the OS, reboot, all is fine.
I
> install the MS Office suite, reboot, all is fine. It'll reboot ok, but
shut
> it off and re start, and it hangs.
> Any ideas? Even safe mode fails to go. I'm getting frustrated.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>

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