Task Bar/ Start menu Problems XP Pro SP1

[Guest]

I have just replaced my motherboard from a siemens to a Abit IC7-Max III. When I booted up I installed all the drivers including Intel Chipset/SATA/LAN/1394 etc..
My task bar won't appear at the bottom of the screen, the waiting cursor appears if you place the cursor over it. I can still access all my programs via my computer on the desktop but just not the task bar, start menu. It is as if there is a conflict somewhere.
If I reinstall the network driver and don't reboot it appears and works correctly. So I thought it may be a conflict here, until i removed the onboard lan in my bios and restarted, it still won't appear. I have tried removing my onboard 1394 also with no joy..
Any help would be appreciated, before I have to reinstall XP (AGAIN!!)

 

[Mary Sauer]

Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318027&Product=winxp

Are you sure you don't have "Auto-Hide" selected in the start menu? Right-click
start, properties, taskbar tab.

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I have just replaced my motherboard from a siemens to a Abit IC7-Max III. When I

booted up I installed all the drivers including Intel Chipset/SATA/LAN/1394 etc..

My task bar won't appear at the bottom of the screen, the waiting cursor appears if

you place the cursor over it. I can still access all my programs via my computer on
the desktop but just not the task bar, start menu. It is as if there is a conflict
somewhere.

If I reinstall the network driver and don't reboot it appears and works correctly.

So I thought it may be a conflict here, until i removed the onboard lan in my bios
and restarted, it still won't appear. I have tried removing my onboard 1394 also
with no joy..