WinXP - Problem booting up

[Waro]

I just got back my RMA'ed motherboard but I having a problem booting up. I am running Windows XP on an Athlon XP 1800+ , Shuttle AK35GT2, with only the hard drive , AGP video card, and memory.

I keep getting the Windows failed to start successfully message. After selecting the safe mode, the computer checks for consistency in the hard drive, run CHKDSK then it restarts.

After it restart, I get the windows failed to start message again. After selecting the safe mode, a blue screen flash very quickly then it reboots. It keeps rebooting after each time. When I select the step by step boot up, it will halt loading mup.sys

I have tried three memory sticks (all had worked in the same motherboard before) in different slots but still the same problem.

I boot up from the windows cd but I got a blue screen with the following error message
stop: 0x0000008E ( 0XC0000005, 0X05888244, 0XF9E8531C, 0X00000000)

It says to disable caching and shadow, which I did but still the same problem.


Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Boonesmi]

try running memtest86 (it runs from a boot disk so it wont matter that you cant get windows to boot)

www.memtest86.com

 

[Waro]

I ran memtest on the first memory stick, it would freeze after Test #4 is 100%, every single time. So I change the memory stick with another one, and ran memtest with no errors for 2 hours. However, I am still unable to boot up windows.

 

[Boonesmi]

looks like your first memory stick was bad
and its not uncommon for windows to become corrupt if booting with a faulty memory stick

so most likely with the new memory stick all your hardware is fine, but you will still need to reinstall or repair windows