Win XP, very sensitive.........

[BZeto]

Well, I've already had to reformat once because win xp would just reboot when it starts to load, I sorta know why that happened though. Well, I recentley installed a new zip drive. I moved my hard drive to one of my RAID IDE ports on my Epox 8K5A2+ and put the zip drive on the primary IDE channel. I installed the highpoint RAID drivers to get the hard drive to work. Windows took forever to load, It would go to the win xp home load screen and just sit there, the hard drive wouldn't even do anything, then it would go to a blank screen and sit there for around 2 minutes. Then finally load into windows. This happened when I had my HDD on the primary IDE channel too. It seemed to start to happen after I installed the highpoint drivers. Well, after I got into windows I decided to use the "system restore" to go back to an earlier point before all this crap started to happen. Now, when it boots up and it goes to the "Win XP Home" loading screen it'll sit there for a long time like last time, my hard drive does nothing. Then, all of the sudden it will just reboot my PC, this happens everytime now, even if I select the "Last know good settings" before windows starts to load.

So is another reformat necessary?

specs:
Epox EP-8K5A2+
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ @ 1.75ghz
512mb Kingston PC2700 DDR
Gainward Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
40gb Seagate cuda IV 7200rpm HDD
Antec True Power 430watt PSU
Win XP Home

 

[skatertech]

Bad drivers... try to eliminate every trace of them. If you have no data on the drive (you mentioned a previous format) it would probably be easier and quicker just to wipe it. Otherwise, try removing the RAID support in the BIOS, and you may have to manually find the drivers and delete them.

 

[BZeto]

Well, I cant really remove any drivers b/c I cant get into windows period.

I do have some stuff on the system, It was about a week ago that I had to reformat. All my updates and a few programs, ect.

 

[skatertech]

If there is no valuable data (you can reload updates/programs) then just format it. Since your last format was a week ago, you probably don't have much personal data on there, if any.

Have you tried safe mode? You could probably copy your documents from the command line.