Super strange windows xp install issues.. Please help!

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So i got the dreaded BSoD on my windows xp w/sp2 partition a couple of nights
ago and could not recover the system. I went ahead and backed up the
documents i needed off the hd and out of curiosity checked to see if my vista
beta 2 partition would still work (as well as vista can work at least) and it
did. I grabbed a brand new hd, installed windows xp64 on it and got the BSoD
on the first load. Since the first load i get the BSoD about 2/3 times i boot
the pc. Some times it just freeezes at the windows load screen and locks up
the pc. Fed up with the system not working, i reformatted the orignal HD,
installed win xp w/sp2 and it BSoD'd the very first load, and never ever made
it to the login screen.

Ive got a basic set up, nforce4 mobo, geforce 7900 gcard, a gig of ultra ram
and a athlon x2 4200+ processer. Vista still works fine, i know the ram is
good i tested it in other pcs, i had been running xp on the system for 3
months, and it worked fine, i didnt install any new hardware when the
problems started. I know the copies of windows are good because they are all
current msdn copies.

PLEASE does anyone know why a good system would run vista, but suddenly
start crashing when trying to run xp?
 
Joe, 8/15/2006, 3:24:01 PM,
PLEASE does anyone know why a good system would run vista, but
suddenly start crashing when trying to run xp?
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What is the error message?
 
Joe said:
So i got the dreaded BSoD on my windows xp w/sp2 partition a couple
of nights ago and could not recover the system. I went ahead and
backed up the documents i needed off the hd and out of curiosity
checked to see if my vista beta 2 partition would still work (as well
as vista can work at least) and it did. I grabbed a brand new hd,
installed windows xp64 on it and got the BSoD on the first load.
Since the first load i get the BSoD about 2/3 times i boot the pc.
Some times it just freeezes at the windows load screen and locks up
the pc. Fed up with the system not working, i reformatted the
orignal HD, installed win xp w/sp2 and it BSoD'd the very first load,
and never ever made it to the login screen.

Ive got a basic set up, nforce4 mobo, geforce 7900 gcard, a gig of
ultra ram and a athlon x2 4200+ processer. Vista still works fine, i
know the ram is good i tested it in other pcs, i had been running xp
on the system for 3 months, and it worked fine, i didnt install any
new hardware when the problems started. I know the copies of windows
are good because they are all current msdn copies.

PLEASE does anyone know why a good system would run vista, but
suddenly start crashing when trying to run xp?
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Driver problems? More info is needed. What is the error on the bsod?
 
it was a memory dump with about 3 different strings in the brackets that say
what the error was. Im at work right now so i cant check, but i remember them
having alot of zeros in them with a few other numbers or letters at the
begining and end of each one. I will check what it was for sure when i get
home and post them.
 
Okay, so besides all the normal junk that is says on the bsod, here is what
it said SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
Stop: 0x0000003B (0x0000000080000003, 0xFFFFF8000119C308,
0xFFFFFADFF91FAD60, 0x0000000)
Dump Physical memory.

Like i said before, fresh hard drives, new installs using good copies of
windows xp/windows xp64 on a system that had worked before with popular and
common hardware and no new hardware installed before the problems started.
Any help would be great
 
Joe said:
Okay, so besides all the normal junk that is says on the bsod, here
is what it said SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
Stop: 0x0000003B (0x0000000080000003, 0xFFFFF8000119C308,
0xFFFFFADFF91FAD60, 0x0000000)
Dump Physical memory.

Like i said before, fresh hard drives, new installs using good copies
of windows xp/windows xp64 on a system that had worked before with
popular and common hardware and no new hardware installed before the
problems started. Any help would be great
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I haven't seen that stop code personally and can't find a lot of info about
it. There's a couple of good articles here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=0x0000003B+&btnG=Google+Search

Have you run any ram tests on this computer. Sometimes ram works on some
motherboards and not others. Were the original bsod's the same error?
 
no the bsod came up different every time. I got it fixed now, as newb as this
sounds i think it was caused by a loose ide cord to my dvd drive.. Thanks for
offering a hand though
 
Joe said:
no the bsod came up different every time. I got it fixed now, as newb
as this sounds i think it was caused by a loose ide cord to my dvd
drive.. Thanks for offering a hand though
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Glad to hear you got it working. That's not a newb thing. I've seen many
experienced techs work on a coumputer then not go through a checklist before
they put the cover back on and spend hours trying to figure out why there is
now a problem. Whenever I have a cover off I check all the connections
before the cover goes back on. Don't ask how many hours I spent on wild
goose chases before I learned to do this :-)
 
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