Resolved winxp loading impossible

Hi,
I start-up my pc, it runs through tests, it gets to the frame with "WIN XP" and the blue moving barrel under it and finally it stops without problems at desktop image. After few seconds, I don't have access to the mouse and keyboard anymore. After a while, the system restarts itself.

The wallpaper set for my PC is from Webshots. I tried to change the wallpaper to none, it stays blue for 3 seconds and it reverts to Webshots wallpaper (other picture).
As an observation, I opened the case of the pc and the video board seems to heat a little too much (even for the summer ).
Please advise where the problem could come from.

 

Hi Stefan B, Have you tried starting in Safe Mode? If you can get to Safe Mode see if you can change the Desktop in Control Panel > Themes. Neil.

 

Hi retiredlearner,
I get in Safe Mode by tapping F5 at start-up and then selecting the option from the page that shows up.
There are lines saying "Multidisk/Multipartition/.../... filling the screen, and after this the PC is restarting itself.
If I select start Windows normally, it shows the black screen with "Windows" and is restarting itself.
I notice the HDD is pretty warm too, as the video card is.
I think that if the PC is cooling down a while, it runs further. But anyway I don't have enough time to make any move, because of mouse / keyboard freeze and PC restarting.

 

Sounds like you may have an overheating problem. Did you try Safe Mode? You have several options and by using the Up and Down arrows on your keyboard you select Safe Mode which is usually at the top of the list.
Can you get into BIOS? You should be able to check Health of PC and find what temperatures the CPU and Motherboard are running at.
Some one will have to step in here and assist you further as I'm off on hols for a week. Cheers Neil.

 

Have a great time, Neil!

Running Safe Mode doesn't help me entering WinXP, the pc only restarts itself.
In BIOS I see CPU - 40 Celsius and Motherboard - 34 Celsius. Touching CPU radiator I sense indeed only a little warm.
In contrast, the radiator on video board is almost hot.

 

I tried to do as you recommended (to set up Win XP) but after I press enter I get the blue screen telling me "A problem has been detected and windows shut down...
Technical information:
***STOP:0x00000024
*** ntfs.sys - Adress F70801FCV base at ....

 

I've run chkdsk first time when I've tried to use XP CD for repair. And I've got: found one or more errors on the volume. This was before the problem I've reported. Let me tell you what happend then:
After chkdsk and the message above, and reset I was able to enter Windows, but after few seconds it froze and nothing. After another reset because of unproper shut down, it showed chkdsk again with three stages. It appeared a message telling "deleting index entry.... After this th PC continued to restart itself as I told in my first post.
I tried to go in Safe mode, but PC continued to restart.
I also tried to boot from a linux distribution, and after this a test utility disk, but without result: I was able to select the Boot CD, but it didn't go any further. The CDs were good, I've checked them on my wife's laptop.

Regarding running diagnose CD from WD, because of the problem above (not possible to boot from a CD) I put the HDD in a docking station and I connected it to the laptop. I backed-up my data - fortunately - on other external HDD, and I run the diagnose CD, having sequence: CD-ROM - USB HDD, and I got the message: NON-WD Drive, error / status code 0201.
What should I do now? Thank you

 

I did what you recommended and I already ran the Quick test, which is passed.
Should I run the extended test?

 

Ok, so we did the extended test (it took 13.15 hours ) and everything is ok (pass).

In the meantime we did the following: we connected a RAID 80 GB HDD (IDE) and the CD drive and we installed Windows on this HDD, having just one RAM memory of 2 GB.

Everything was ok, Windows was installed. We reconfigured the devices how they were initially, meaning: CD-ROM and DVD on the same cable, accessible directly from MB, and the 80 GB HDD through a RAID controller used as IDE extension (because we have only one IDE connector and this was used for CD and DVD). Other configuration of CD, DVD and HDD is rather impossible because of the case available space.

Again, all was ok, the PC entered Windows. At this moment we put the second memory in its slot and after restart, it showed a blue screen, restarted and ran into Windows. So ok again.

Having this stable configuration, we put the 80 HDD on slave and we connected the previous tested SATA 750 GB HDD. It showed the message: "one disk should be checked for inconsistency" and we let it do the tests - without any messages - and it went to Windows. After few seconds - restart, as we presented in the first post.

Do you have any suggestions?

 

With SATA HDD connected I cannot set in Control Panel as you said, because of restart.
So I disconnected it, and I with IDE HDD to not automatically restart. But now I cannot go beyond, because I have a blue screen saying: ***STOP: 0x0000008E. The physical memory dump is complete, but I cannot go in Windows to run the bluscreenview.exe.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot find the 80 GB drive as boot device listed at Boot priority from BIOS. Only SATA, CD, DVD, Floppy, ATAPI-CDROM. BIOS says the HDDs installed are 2, SATA - 750G and RAID - 80G, but in Boot priority list I cannot find it.

 

I took out the RAID card and now the IDE HDD is connected as Master to the end of the cable. I've connected the CD-rom on the cable too. I got again the blue screen with 0x0000008E.

I tried to repair Windows and now I can open Windows. When I go in system / device manager I can see "Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus" doesn't have the driver installed (it has the question mark). Is this a problem?