Can;'t load 2k or XP?

[beamrider]

System specs:

Iwill KK266
Athlon 1G, AXIA or AVIA, can't remember which offhand........
GF3 Ti500
3 256M sticks of Mushkin Rev3
Alpha PAL 8045
Promise Fasttrak66 w/ 2 30G Maxtor drives in RAID 0
Various other components that don't matter

OK, here's the dealie. Ran this setup at 1.5G (10x150) for about 9 months or so, flawlessly. Not a burp. Ran W2k Pro w/ no issues.

I go to install XP Pro, and can't get it to install whatsoever. At first, I thought it was the drivers for the Promise card, because the link on Promise's website is wrong. So I FTP in, sniff around, and get the correct drivers. No luck. I'm still thinking it's a driver issue at this point, so I rip out the drives and promise card, and slap in a single 3G drive. After 3 hours, still no luck.

I say screw it for now, and go to expand a Ghost image of a totally clean fresh W2k Pro install. No go upon boot. It hangs at the same point every time, right after the splash screen, the screen goes black and that's the end of it. I did notice that when trying to install XP, I would get thru the first phase fine, but upon reboot, after it makes it to the splash screen, the same thing happens, black screen and nothing.

I've tried everything I can think of, swapped ram and gfx card out, no luck. Tried to install at default setting (10x100) no luck.

So now basically I can run 98 on this machine, but it's buggy as crap. w2k and XP are a no go for some reason.

The question is: Would the OC'ing history of this setup have anything to do with my troubles? ELM, or southbridge issues now from the high FSB? Or am I missing something critical here?

 

[beamrider]

Bump!

 

[beamrider]

PLZ!

 

[djlevyii]

When I have installed a new piece of hardward in my computer, running Win XP Pro, the same thing happened to me, and continues to happen when I add a new sound card or modem.

For example, I installed my sound card and the system would not get to the Windows splash screen, just stayed in black. I hit the reset button and the system reboots and then shows a screen that says something to the effect, "Sorry you're system did not load windows. maybe you hit the reset or power button..." a bunch of rubbish like that.

There are the options to safe boot, and a couple of more and also a regualr boot to Windows. If you do nothing you will see a count down starting with I think 15 at which time the computer reboots and Windows loads just fine.

Again, this has happened to me and before I tried the reset buttom, I would just power down, pull out the recently added piece of hardware and power up and the syem would boot and load Windows ok. But again, one time I just hit the reset button, and well, I already told you what happend.

Give it a try, and if you would, let me know if it works.