boot problems with xp home

[Mel]

Hi, I have a new computer with an AMD 64 3400+ chip and
windows XP Home sp2. when I boot up, 9 times out 10, on
the windows XP screen (with the progress bar) it hangs,
and then restarts itself, it then comes up with the menu
and 30 sec countdown to either start in safe mode (which
doesnt work) or start windows normaly, when I press
return it restarts and usualy after 2 or 3 goes it starts
as normal and is fine with no problems until I reboot
again. Sometimes it will start normaly first time. Also
if I press f8 at start up and try to go into safe mode it
wont go, and usualy brings up the blue screen of death. I
have upgraded the Bios to the latest version, the
motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NS. One more question, if
I reformat and reinstall windows will I have to activate
it again, and if so is their any problems, as I only
activated it a week ago..

 

[Rock]

Hi, I have a new computer with an AMD 64 3400+ chip and
windows XP Home sp2. when I boot up, 9 times out 10, on
the windows XP screen (with the progress bar) it hangs,
and then restarts itself, it then comes up with the menu
and 30 sec countdown to either start in safe mode (which
doesnt work) or start windows normaly, when I press
return it restarts and usualy after 2 or 3 goes it starts
as normal and is fine with no problems until I reboot
again. Sometimes it will start normaly first time. Also
if I press f8 at start up and try to go into safe mode it
wont go, and usualy brings up the blue screen of death. I
have upgraded the Bios to the latest version, the
motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NS. One more question, if
I reformat and reinstall windows will I have to activate
it again, and if so is their any problems, as I only
activated it a week ago..

No problems with the reactivation. Just have to make a 5 minute phone call.