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[imported_Ron Vogel]

Ok, here it is. Windows XP home on a Athlon XP 1800 OC'd to 150mhz at 1.73 gig. This WAS running stable, but now having trouble with it. My temps are low enough (only seeing MAX 109 deg F on the CPU). What happens is when I boot up, I get to the windows xp start thingy, then it goes blank and the welcome screen does not appear. Even will hang trying to go into safe mode. I've tried pulling the RAM, to see if it was the problem, but it seems ok. If I reload windows from the disk it will boot up, but eventually will start acting up again. I'm running out of paitience working on this thing constantly. Anyone have any ideas?

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[beyerch]

Originally posted by Ron Vogel@Dec 8 2003, 02:36 PM
Ok, here it is. Windows XP home on a Athlon XP 1800 OC'd to 150mhz at 1.73 gig. This WAS running stable, but now having trouble with it. My temps are low enough (only seeing MAX 109 deg F on the CPU). What happens is when I boot up, I get to the windows xp start thingy, then it goes blank and the welcome screen does not appear. Even will hang trying to go into safe mode. I've tried pulling the RAM, to see if it was the problem, but it seems ok. If I reload windows from the disk it will boot up, but eventually will start acting up again. I'm running out of paitience working on this thing constantly. Anyone have any ideas?

blaster virus ?

 

[imported_Ron Vogel]

Nope, removed it. Also thought it may be some sort of Trojan horse, possibly messing with loading drivers. I just called an old band buddy that owns a computer data recovery company, and we went over some of the details. If I try to boot in safe mode it shows what drivers are loading, then hangs on IPVMon.sys. He did a lookup, and it seems this is related to my SBC dialup, and others have had problems with this. This started happening after I was going apesh!t tying to get it to boot fast (registry cleansing) I got my boot time down to 20 sec, but then crashed it. I assume my registry settings would be refreshed after a windows reload.

 

[syP]

underclock then try again

 

[imported_Ron Vogel]

Did all that, runs best at 150. Even lowered my memory speeds with no effect. Also ran it snycronous and asynchronous, but it wouldn't even boot unless it was synchronous.

 

[ThaLord]

I have lots of ideas...

call me when you have time.. I will give you some quick ideas?

Do you have a spare hard drive?

was it a fresh reload?

if it was a fresh reload, was there any other problems that lead up to a reload?

John

any other changes before this problem?

 

[imported_Ron Vogel]

It isn't a clean boot unfortunately. I need to get another HD before I can do that. I have been working on an album for about a year and a half, with some songs up to 80 tracks now. All that info is on my drive, and can't back it up because the files are too large. I'm going to have to put this on the backburner for about a week, I'm going to Vegas tomorrow on business and won't be back for a week. I'll definately give a call when I get back though.