Re: XP Pro System is hosed

Pat wrote:
Ever since XP SP3 came out, my system has been hosed. First, it was
dead, 6 saying it couldn't find some file in the system directory.
After fighting with it all night, I reinstalled Windows. Once
everything was back up, and I reapplied SP3, things started going to
crap again. This time, the messages suggested I had a hard drive
issue. Considering I had just rebuilt this system last December and
replaced everything BUT the system drive, that was a possibility. So,
I went and bought a brand new Maxtor 300GB IDE drive. Reinstalled
Windows. Let that burn in for a day, and everything seemed OK, so I
started reinstalling my apps. Shortly thereafter, the system started
going haywire again. Locking up with no entry in the system or
application event log. I had 4 GB of memory in it, so I took out one
stick, and ran WinDiag on it for something like 26 hous with no errors
found, then I ran MEMTEST86 on it for 49 hours with no errors found.
Confident the problem wasn't memory, I started over again. Formatted
the drive, reinstalled Windows, and let that burn in for 2 days.
Everything was hunky-dory. Once again, reinstalled the rest of my
apps, and let Microsoft Update bring everything back up to date.
Everything was cool for about 3 days, then the system started going
nuts on me again. Locking up, and giving me BSODs. The last one I
captured had stop error
0x0000007F(0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000). Trying to
boot using safe mode, I kept seeing the system would reboot right
after mup.sys loaded. Researching this pointed to power supply as a
potential problem. I have a Power & Cooling 750W PSU that is less than
6 months old, but I went ahead and bought a brand new Rosewill 750W
PSU that came highly recommended on NewEgg. Tonight, I swapped the
PSUs out, and I still can't get Windows to boot. I ran the repair
console, ran CHKDSK /R. It took forever, said that it found some
errors and fixed them. When I attempted to reboot the system, it went
to a BSOD, which flashed by so quickly I couldn't read it. Then it
went into a reboot loop that I could only stop by powering down. What
do I do now?

My system (all new within the last 6 months):
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 6000+
3 GB RAM, DDR2, Single Channel
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H MoBo
System drive: Maxtor 300 GB IDE (100GB boot partition, 200GB other
drive)
Second drive: Seagate Barracuda 500 GB SATA drive
eVGA GeForce 8500GT PCIExpress video card, 512 MB RAM
NetGear G311 Gigabit Ethernet card

I have an AMD Turion 64 X2 in an Acer and no problems. Did you let SP3 finish? It was a slow upgrade.



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