XP Pro hangs on dual opteron

[jim.mauro]

WXP Professional hangs during boot on a home-built
dual opteron box. This is following a fresh install.
It gets to the logo screen with the moving horizontal bar,
than the display goes blank and....nothing.

It boots in safe mode, but poking around in safe mode has
not yielded anything.

The hardware appears to be intact. I've had two different
Unix variants (Ubuntu Linux & OpenSolaris) running on
the box for a week with no errors or issues.

I purchased WXP Pro to get support for both processors -
WXP Home Edition only supports uniprocessor systems
(it runs, but never enables the second CPU).

Any clues, ideas or suggestions on how I can root-cause this
problem - I'm wide open. As I said, safe mode comes up,
and aside from some missing drivers (network, audio, SATA),
everything appears fine. I would not think WXP Pro would hang
for lack of a network or audio driver, and I'm not using SATA disks
(using an IDE disk).

Thanks,
/jim

 

[Guest]

its probably your missing SATA drivers if you have a decent tech store where
you live and you get parts there or things done just ask them for a disk with
SATA drivers and they'll probably give you one

 

[jim.mauro]

Thanks - I tried 2 things:
- disable the SATA controller in BIOS - didn't help.
- Loaded the SATA driver off the CD that came with the motherboard
(Tyan KW8) while booted in safe mode - didn't help.

So I don't think that's it, but I appreciate the post.

Thanks,
/jim

 

[needlove]

Boot into safe mode and log onto your account. click start > run > type
msconfig and click ok. Choose selective startup and uncheck everything but
load startup items. Leave the use original boot.ini as it is. Click ok.
restart and log onto windows normally. If you are able to log on ok with
this configuration go back to the config utility and put a check mark in the
load system services box. click ok and reboot. Continue to check the
remaining boxes until the problem occurs. then go into that subcatagory by
clicking its respective tab and go in and begin the same process, uncheck
all but one and reboot etc..

 

[jim.mauro]

Thank you. WXP is a black-box to me, and that was the kind of help I
was looking for.

With everything unchecked (including Load Startup Items), meaning
everything is
unchecked except "Selective Startup" and "Use orginal boot.ini", it
will still
hang in the same place on reboot.

I guess I'll have a look at the boot.ini file....

Thanks again
/jim