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Anyone know what the deal is with this error? Im running WinXP on an AMD FX51 with a gig of ram. I can get into safe mode, but cant boot normally. Ive tried deleting my page file in safe mode and recreating it but it doesnt help.

Any ideas wtf is going on?! 🙁
 
That kind of error is either caused by a bad problem with a driver, or faulty hardware. I'm thinking hardware. My guess, since you can get it to boot in safe mode (which doesn't load a lot of the device drivers) is that you have a bad add-on card, either GPU, NIC, or something else that is plugged into the bus. It's worth pulling all the stuff you don't need out of the system and see if it will boot Windows in normal mode. Another option is to hit the F8 key on boot and then select "Boot with logging" to see if the boot log shows which device crapped out.
 
Ok, i tried the "boot with logging" option. After i selected it, it went to the windows loading screen as usual, and then BSOD'd again. How do i check the error log?

The only cards ive got are a GPU and a soundcard. I cant remove the GPU because i dont have onboard video, though.

Thanks for the help!!
 
The boot log should be in the root of the system drive. It's called boot.log.

I wouldn't rule out the GPU at this point since the system seems to fault about when Windows would be intializing it out of text mode. Definitely yank the sound card, though, and try it without that.
 
Just so i dont leave this thread hangin...

It was the vid card. I uninstalled the cards drivers in safe mode and it booted fine in normal mode. Cleared the drivers out and downloaded the latest ones from ATI (conveniently released today) and the problem cleared up. I think it was a problem with the 6.10 drivers that i installed a couple weeks ago that started all of this. Odd that a set of drivers caused so much grief... at one point my entire RAID-0 array was broken. :/

Thanks for the help everyone!
 
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