Error after installing WinXP

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Danse

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After my recent problems with being unable to boot into XP, I ended up trying to do a repair install over the old one. When that didn't clear up the problem, I did a quick format of my C drive partition and re-installed XP Pro SP2. The installation seemed to go fine, but after it reboots, I get a bluescreen error:

SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
STOP: 0x0000006F (0xC000000E, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I tried re-formatting and re-installing a second time and got the same problem. I've already run the manufacturer's diagnostics on both of my drives (only the 500GB WD is hooked up right now), and ran chkdsk on them as well. No problems there.

Anyone know what the error means? Is there some way to diagnose it even though I don't really have replacement parts to go through a process of elimination? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

oh, and I should probably say that I haven't added any new hardware or anything and that the system has been running fine since February until the problems started last week.

WinXP Pro
Core 2 Duo E6300
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR Motherboard
2GB Buffalo Firestix PC2-6400 RAM
Radeon X1950PRO 256MB GDDR3
500GB WD5000KS SATA II
300GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA
LiteOn SH-16A7S-05 SATA DVD Burner
 
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Danse

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Hmm... so nobody has any ideas on this one? Am I really that screwed? Is there any way to rule out the motherboard as the problem?
 
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Trashman

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doing a rather quick serach on google, it may be your cd/dvd-rom thats causing the problems....anyway to try another cd-rom drive?
I see you mention no spare parts...not sure what to tell ya.

edit: I'd also check the XP cd maybe dirty or scratched.
 
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Danse

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I tried replacing my SATA DVD with my old ATA DVD drive and also tried two different XP discs, neither of which seem to have any scratches or marks on them. However, I couldn't seem to get anything to work, and even my keyboard and mouse don't seem to be getting power and lighting up. I'm pretty much at a loss right now. I can't figure out what the problem is. I posted a new post regarding the keyboard/mouse problem. I'm thinking that it may be a motherboard problem, but don't know how to verify that.
 
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Danse

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Not sure if it's the same error message or not. The first set of numbers inside the parenthesis are different on mine from that article, but not sure if that matters. I do have only one drive hooked up right now, and the installation seems to go fine, until after reboot I get this message.
 
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orbiter

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I'm sure I've had errors like this at one time or other with XP Pro, not sure of the exact codes though. You say you've done a quick format of The HDD but have you tried a full format of C: ? Also make sure that after the format you see New Partition RAW, sometimes I used to get New Partition 1 which I assumed was created by Windows due to it detecting remains of old files.
 
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Trashman

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If possible, try installing XP on your other drive.
Any way you can borrow someone's XP cd to rule out maybe a bad cd??????
Doing searches i come up with a few cd problems and hard dirve problems.
 
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Danse

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I borrowed another XP CD from my stepdad, so I've tried 3 different XP CDs now. I haven't tried a full format yet, so I'll try that next, if I can get my keyboard and mouse to respond during the boot sequence. Right now they aren't responding at all. No lights, nothing. They worked up until yesterday. Not sure what happened since I haven't done anything in the BIOS. I started another thread about that problem yesterday. No solution yet.
 
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