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Cold boot problem

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BassMan69

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I am having great difficulties getting Windows to load from a cold boot. It keeps crashing and I have to restart the computer multiple times before I can get a successful login. If I do a soft boot through windows, I do not have any problems. I have updated the BIOS on the mobo, done all windows updates, and updated all drivers including the latest chipset drivers. I tried disabling NCQ and running in SATA 1 and I am still having this problem. The drive is recognized on POST and in the BIOS but it fails to load windows successfully on a cold boot. I also have no shared IRQs.

I get various BSOD messages trying to load windows from a cold boot or shortly after a successful login. Here are some things that have popped up...

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
BAD_POOL_HEADER

and some drivers that have been mentioned...

NTFS.SYS
KLIF.SYS
ACPI.SYS


Here are my full system specs...

-450W PSU
-Asus A8N-E mobo
-Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego)
-2x 1GB DDR400
-EVGA 7600 GT PCI-E 16
-Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.10 8MB 8.5MS SATA2 NCQ Hard Drive
-LG GSA-H22N DVD burner
-SB Audigy 2

Running WinXP Pro
 
Alright, had some time to mess around with the system. I have resolved the issue. One of the RAM sticks was faulty. I pulled it out and I am running only 1 GB and everything seems stable and windows loads fine. It's weird how it was stable during a soft boot and not during cold boot. Also, I never encountered any issues with this RAM on my previous rig. Ah well....
 
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