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My computer often freezes at the XP splash screen after a few passes of the
bar at the bottom. My setup follows this message. It used to be that I
would need to restart 2-4 times and eventaully windows would boot and once
this happened, the system was stable, Now, seemingly since I installed a new
hard drive and partitioned my original hard drive, XP always freezes at the
third pass of the bars on the splash screen. Removing the new drive and
removing the partion on the old drive didn’t help. However, before as now,
if I boot into safe mode and disable EITHER my tuner card or my graphics card
or both, XP will always boot. I replaced my PSU (Ultra X connect 550W) with
a new one (Antec trio TP 650W) that is on my motherboard's recommended list
and the problem remains. I installed Vista RC1 on the new partition of my
original drive and it boots fine with both the tuner and graphics card
enabled. I still need to use XP with BOTH tuner and graphics card. I have
latest drivers from websites for both tuner card and graphics card. BTW, XP
is Media Center Edition 2005. Why is XP freezing at the splash screen?
Motherboard: DFI Lan Party UT nF4 SLI-DR EXPERT
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
Memmory: Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
PSU: Antec TruePower Trio 650Watt ATX12V v2.2 & EPS 12V Tuner Card:
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box PCI Interface Personal Video Recorder
Graphics Card: XFX PV-T71F-YDE9 Geforce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3300822AS 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Hard Drive: Maxtor 300GB 7200 RPM SATA/150 16MB cache
Optical Drive: reused HP CD/DVD drive
Optical Drive: CD/DVD RW TSSTcorp
bar at the bottom. My setup follows this message. It used to be that I
would need to restart 2-4 times and eventaully windows would boot and once
this happened, the system was stable, Now, seemingly since I installed a new
hard drive and partitioned my original hard drive, XP always freezes at the
third pass of the bars on the splash screen. Removing the new drive and
removing the partion on the old drive didn’t help. However, before as now,
if I boot into safe mode and disable EITHER my tuner card or my graphics card
or both, XP will always boot. I replaced my PSU (Ultra X connect 550W) with
a new one (Antec trio TP 650W) that is on my motherboard's recommended list
and the problem remains. I installed Vista RC1 on the new partition of my
original drive and it boots fine with both the tuner and graphics card
enabled. I still need to use XP with BOTH tuner and graphics card. I have
latest drivers from websites for both tuner card and graphics card. BTW, XP
is Media Center Edition 2005. Why is XP freezing at the splash screen?
Motherboard: DFI Lan Party UT nF4 SLI-DR EXPERT
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
Memmory: Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
PSU: Antec TruePower Trio 650Watt ATX12V v2.2 & EPS 12V Tuner Card:
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box PCI Interface Personal Video Recorder
Graphics Card: XFX PV-T71F-YDE9 Geforce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3300822AS 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Hard Drive: Maxtor 300GB 7200 RPM SATA/150 16MB cache
Optical Drive: reused HP CD/DVD drive
Optical Drive: CD/DVD RW TSSTcorp