New XP SP 1a install on new ASUS A8N hangs on boot

[Petie]

Hi,

I have a newly built machine and am having difficulty getting XP Pro
(SP 1a) up and running and hope y'all can shed some light.

Here are the basic stats:

Asus A8N-E
AMD Athalon 64 3200
2 @ Kingston 512 MB RAM
2 @ Maxtor DiamondMax 100 GB SATA hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration
ATI Radeon X850XT 256 MB Video
Sony DVD-ROM
Nec DVD+/-RW

That's pretty much it. I am using an In-Win Case with a 300 Watt power
supply.

After struggling to find the RAID drivers, I was able to get XP
installed. I used the Support CD to install the network driver, and
also installed the monitoring software, firewall, etc. XP hung on the
next boot up.

"OK, that's bad, something newly installed just hosed the brand new
OS", I thought and reinstalled the OS. This time, I installed only the
network driver from the support CD. Again, XP hung on boot up. It
never got past the XP logo with the blue scan bar.

So, I rebooted from the install CD and fixed the existing installation.
Since the NIC driver had been installed once, the installer prompted
me for the support CD and re-installed the NIC driver. Boot up
proceeded and I then installed the software for the video card and
rebooted. Sure enough, it didn't come up. So I rebooted into safe
mode and looked at the event log. Yes, there were some errors, but MS
didn't have any information about them.

The errors were:

VSS, "Volume Shadow Copy service error"
EventSystem, "The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during
its internal processing." This came from eventsystemobj.cpp
WmiAdapter "Open of service failed"

Again, MS didn't have any information about these. They didn't seem
like they were the root cause for the hang. So I rebooted. Yup, hung
again.

In Summary:
Newly assembled system, newly installed XP Pro Sp 1. My understanding
is that I have only installed the network driver from the support CD.
I didn't include anything else like the monitoring software, audio
controller, firewall, etc.

I would appreciate your thoughts on where to start looking for the
problem. I've tried disconnecting the DVD+/-RW. I am going to run the
install CD and try repairing the OS again just to see if I can get it
to a point where it can (1) access the network and (2) reboot and come
up cleanly.

Many thanks,

Petie

 

[Guest]

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
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[Petie]

Thanks Jaymon. I looked this over, and other than exhaustively
pre-checking my new hardware against the compatibilty list, every looks
like what I've done. I have been booting into Safe Mode and disabling
drivers and then rebooting. I've pretty much exhausted every driver so
far. If I get to the end point of having disabled non-default driver,
then I guess I'll reinstall and see what I can do to get a NIC driver
for the ASUS motherboard that doesn't bring the new OS down.

Definitely a chicken and egg situation -- need the driver to get the OS
updates. Need the OS updates to use the newest driver.

 

[Guest]

Petie,

Did you install the chipset drivers first, after booting into XP..?
Make sure you update your drivers, bios, etc..
http://support.asus.com/
Also, the PSU your using may not be enough, think 400-500 watts, I think it
would be better suited for your rig, see link below..
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/Power_Supply_Calculator.php?cmd=AMD
j;-j