Sudden BOOT problem

Ive searched and searched that microsoft knowledge base but cant find anything that seems to relate to my specific problem.

You see, out of nowhere the system suddenly just wont go into windows and just hangs there. Yet nothing will help to get it there either. Not doing a restore, or boot to last good startup, not boot logging, or debugging boot, nothing. And from everything I have read xp is suppose to have this almost fail safe system restore on it. Bull is what I say.

Then to top it all off, after repartitioning the hard drive and then reformatting, you would think I should be able to reinstall it. But no... When I try to reinstall a clean copy of both XP or 2000 the system locks up in the exact same place every time when it's detecting the devices. I have even disconnected everything that I possibly can too. No printer, no scanner, only the necessities do I have connected. Weird huh?

The strange thing is that XP comes with a system and software compatibility test that it runs before you install it so it will give you a report of anything and everything including your software that wont work on your system without getting upgraded drivers. Only one thing shows up on my report which I did get drivers for and updated it, which was my built in sound on my motherboard.

So after trying, and retrying, and retrying again, all of a sudden after about 6 times it takes the install. This whole senerio has happened 2 times too, exactly the same with each time but about 3 weeks apart from each other. Not a single resource has been able to give me any answers and believe me I have searched too. I know its something to do with an internal device or something that is blocking the install each time but I cant figure out why suddenly it will just take it after so many trys.

I guess I may never know. Yet now I am paranoid that this will happen again out of the blue since its happened 2x in a month. What is so sad is the fact that I love XP. It is the most stable operating system old Billy has created yet. Where after my upgrade to the 1.4GHz AThlon using windows SE my system was crashing or locking up maybe 10 times a day. After installing XP I havent had it lock up once or crash except for those 2 incidents that I explained above.

ANY IDEAS GUYS???

 

System specs would help.

My suspicions would be hardware problems with

1. Video board (most likely)
2. Memory

 

Specs coming...

Specs coming...
Meanwhile let me mention the following:

-Mine is the professional version of XP.
-processor is 1.4GHz AThlon
-The sound card I had trouble with is built into the mother board and it's cmedia, or something, on the asus board and yes I upgraded drivers to XP so it no longer comes up on my list.

Will post specs asap.

Your suspicions that it would be hardware problems is apparently accurate to me. That it may be the video card is also logical. So then the procedue would be to beg/borrow/steal another video card for troubleshooting this. As for memory, I could run a memory checker on the installed memory. Sound ok?

 

Specs

I don't see a way to attach a text file here (the specs output by windowsXP) so perhaps someone can tell me exactly what would be helpful here??

I will post a bit of it here anyway:

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 4 Stepping 4 Authentic AMD ~1399 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7M266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1004A, 6/12/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148) "
Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 134.11 MB
Total Virtual Memory 874.58 MB
Available Virtual Memory 658.41 MB
Page File Space 619.11 MB

[Conflicts/Sharing]

Resource Device
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4

IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
IRQ 9 S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
IRQ 9 Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC

Memory Address 0xE7000000-0xE7EFFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xE7000000-0xE7EFFFFF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4


[Forced Hardware]

Device PNP Device ID

[I/O]

Resource Device Status
0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus OK
0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller OK
0x00000D00-0x0000FFFF PCI bus OK
0x000003B0-0x000003BB AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0x000003B0-0x000003BB S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
0x000003C0-0x000003DF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0x000003C0-0x000003DF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
0x00000A79-0x00000A79 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK
0x00000010-0x0000001F Motherboard resources OK
0x00000020-0x00000021 Programmable interrupt controller OK
0x00000080-0x00000090 Direct memory access controller OK
0x00000040-0x00000043 System timer OK
0x00000070-0x00000073 System CMOS/real time clock OK
0x00000061-0x00000061 System speaker OK
0x000000F0-0x000000FF Numeric data processor OK
0x000003F2-0x000003F5 Standard floppy disk controller OK
0x000003F7-0x000003F7 Standard floppy disk controller OK
0x00000378-0x0000037F ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK
0x00000778-0x0000077B ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK
0x000003F8-0x000003FF Communications Port (COM1) OK
0x00000060-0x00000060 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
0x00000064-0x00000064 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
0x0000D800-0x0000D80F VIA Bus Master IDE Controller OK
0x000001F0-0x000001F7 Primary IDE Channel OK
0x000003F6-0x000003F6 Primary IDE Channel OK
0x00000170-0x00000177 Secondary IDE Channel OK
0x00000376-0x00000376 Secondary IDE Channel OK
0x0000D400-0x0000D41F VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
0x0000D000-0x0000D01F VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
0x0000A400-0x0000A4FF CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device OK
0x00000201-0x00000201 Standard Game Port OK
0x0000A000-0x0000A0FF Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC OK


[IRQs]

Resource Device Status
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device OK
IRQ 9 Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC OK
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK

[Memory]

Resource Device Status
0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK
0xF0000-0xFFFFF System board OK
0x100000-0xFFFFFFF System board OK
0xFFFE0000-0xFFFFFFFF System board OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
0xC8000-0xDFFFF PCI bus OK
0x10000000-0xFFFFFFFF PCI bus OK
0xE7000000-0xE7EFFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0xE7000000-0xE7EFFFFF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
0xE7F00000-0xF77FFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF AMD-761 Processor to AGP Controller OK
0xE8000000-0xEFFFFFFF S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 OK
0xE6800000-0xE68000FF Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC OK



[Video Codecs]

CODEC Manufacturer Description Status File Version Size Creation Date
c:\windows\system32\tsbyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\TSBYUV.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148) 8.00 KB (8,192 bytes) 8/17/2001 10:36 PM
c:\windows\system32\msh261.drv Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSH261.DRV 4.4.3400 180.00 KB (184,320 bytes) 7/16/2002 6:01 PM
c:\windows\system32\msvidc32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSVIDC32.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148) 25.00 KB (25,600 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM
c:\windows\system32\msrle32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSRLE32.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148) 9.50 KB (9,728 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM
c:\windows\system32\ir41_32.ax Intel Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\IR41_32.AX 4.51.16.03 828.50 KB (848,384 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM
c:\windows\system32\ir50_32.dll Intel Corporation Indeo® video 5.10 OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\IR50_32.DLL R.5.10.15.2.55 737.50 KB (755,200 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM
c:\windows\system32\msh263.drv Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSH263.DRV 4.4.3400 280.00 KB (286,720 bytes) 8/17/2001 10:37 PM
c:\windows\system32\msyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSYUV.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148) 16.00 KB (16,384 bytes) 8/17/2001 10:36 PM
c:\windows\system32\iyuv_32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\IYUV_32.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148) 44.50 KB (45,568 bytes) 8/17/2001 10:36 PM
c:\windows\system32\iccvid.dll Radius Inc. OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\ICCVID.DLL 1.10.0.6 108.00 KB (110,592 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM
c:\windows\system32\mpg4c32.dll Microsoft Corporation Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec v1 OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\MPG4C32.DLL 3.01.0.2954 248.31 KB (254,272 bytes) 10/29/1998 11:34 AM
c:\windows\system32\ir32_32.dll Intel(R) Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\System32\IR32_32.DLL Not Available 194.50 KB (199,168 bytes) 8/23/2001 12:00 PM

[CD-ROM]

Item Value
Drive G:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type CD-ROM
Name YAMAHA CRW8424E
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate 2311.11 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMYAMAHA_CRW8424E_________________________1.0J____\4346305730303037323920202020202020202020
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148), 46.38 KB (47,488 bytes), 8/23/2001 12:00 PM)

[Sound Device]

Item Value
Name CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
Manufacturer C-Media
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_13F6&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_80E21043&REV_10\3&61AAA01&0&28
I/O Port 0x0000A400-0x0000A4FF
IRQ Channel IRQ 9
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cmaudio.sys (5.12.01.0630, 274.20 KB (280,782 bytes), 7/16/2002 6:21 PM)

[Display]

Item Value
Name S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_5333&DEV_8A22&SUBSYS_8A225333&REV_03\4&2299AE5B&0&2808
Adapter Type S3 Savage4, S3 Graphics Inc. compatible
Adapter Description S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4
Adapter RAM 32.00 MB (33,554,432 bytes)
Installed Drivers s3sav4.dll
Driver Version 5.12.01.8012-8.40.03
INF File s3sav4.inf (S3SAVAGE4M section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 65536
Resolution 800 x 600 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 16
Memory Address 0xE7000000-0xE7EFFFFF
Memory Address 0xE8000000-0xEFFFFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 9
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\s3sav4m.sys (5.12.01.8012-8.40.03 built by: ReleasedBinaries, 76.00 KB (77,824 bytes), 7/16/2002 5:57 PM)