A8N-SLI booting issues!

[bneiderman]

Ok, I have had random WEIRD issues with this system. I have Athlon 4000+, Maxtor 300GB with NCQ, Windows XP Professional, 1 GB OCZ 3200 Version 2 limited edition ram.

Now here is what is happening. 4th INSTALL of Windows XP for things like:

1) Windows boots and then nothing opens up. Click on Outlook 2003...nothing. Click on IE....nothing. Try system restore....nothing. Reinstall Windows ---> works.

2) Lost boot.ini file and need to recover using bootcfg.

3) System will simply not boot at all.

No overclocking here and using 1004 final bios. What could be causing this? NCQ? Bios? I have never had these issues with my old system. Oh yeah also using the newest forceware drivers.


Thanks for any help.

 

[mlc]

NCQ comes to mind first with your set up .. but the NCQ problems were addressed with an older bios and older nfroce driver from the version you are running...

that being the case, I would then be suspicious of the hard drive itself.. and run some diagnostics against it... and if that looks ok.. then do the same for the memory....