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We finally got back to working on this. We ended up re-installing from scratch with XP Service Pack 2, and everything now works correctly. My wife would not let us mess with the system any more (mostlly her system), so we took the shortest, safest route. Thanks for the help.

Right. With our first build, there was not extra cpu power connector. So, we didn't even think to look for one....

Hi, This is kind of a long shot, but here goes. When we built our 2nd computer, we were having what sounds to be a similar problem. After reading through the mobo manual, we found out that the cpu wasn't receiving any power. All we had to do was take the 4-pin cpu connector from the PSU...

OK, we will try that when we can get back on the system (may be a quite a while before we can get on the system to try this and get back to you). Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply. 1) We will check the event viewer as soon as we can get time on the machine. Although it does crash when booting in normal mode when the Network Adapter (NA) is enabled, it does not crash when booting in normal mode with the NA disabled. If we boot in Normal mode with...

We have an MSI K8N Neo4- F with the Nvidia chipset. We are running Windowx XP SP2 (just upgraded to Service Pack 2). The computer will only boot in Normal mode if we disable or remove the NVIDIA Network Adapter driver. If we attempt to boot in Normal mode, it always ends with a Bad Pool...