[TheAMAZINGNorad]

Well, I just bought a bunch of new parts to upgrade my sisters computer. I got a combo deal @ the tigerdirect store of a Soyo SY-P4i 845PE board, case, and 400W PSU for $69. It is using 512MB of Corsair Value Select PC3200, a 120GB Western Digital 8MB drive (both new) and her old Radeon 32 DDR and old SB Live! The CPU is a 3.0 C Engineering Sample. I ploped it all together and installed windows on da new drive. Well, when it went to boot after finishing the install it hung when I tried to logon as a user. I tried again and it will always hang as i try to log on or right after I logged on. Well, I can boot to safemode and run Super PI all day long and it is fine. If I drop the FSB to 190 or lower it boots reguarly into windows with no problem. WTF is going on? I have messed with the AGP/PCI lock, voltages, memory timings, everything. It dosent appear that the CPU is running too hot. Why will it work fine in safe mode but not boot to regular windows? I tried reinstalling windows AGAIN and it still does the same thing. Thanks for any help!

[fadirocks]

Your slow logon on normal boot it saying that Windows doesn't like one of your hardware and probably It's SB live

You can try to install updated drivers for Sound Card and Video Card if that didn't work

You can try Windows 2000 Pro and see what happens

Your 3rd option is to test for hardware using Knoppix http://knoppix.net (good luck finding a good mirror site) if knoppix runs right and play bunch of videos and sound for about 1 hour straight without freezing then your hardware is ok it's stupid windows then!

also what's your Windows XP ver? does it have SP1 on it? if not you can try a Windows XP with SP1 or you can stream it
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsX...p1-bootcd.html you can try to use SP2 RC2 and that might work


Good Luck

[nahmus]

It might be that that MB does not overclock well. The other thing you acan try is removing the old SBlive. they were sometimes a bit buggy.