Problem with computer hanging at restart

[iLL0gIcaL]

My system specs are as folows:
Mobile AMD Athlon XP, 1200 MHz
MSI K7T266 Pro2
1gb PC2100 DDR RAM
CompUSA 400w power supply
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
Hercules Game Theater XP 7.1
LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1613S
LITE-ON LTR-48246S (48x/24x/48x CD-RW)
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (16x/40x DVD-ROM)
Maxtor 30 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133
Seagate Barracuda 40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100
Quantum Fireball 20 GB SCSI
Logitech MX510 optical mouse

Now here is the problem. This is a fresh install of WinXP with SP2 slipstreamed. Now everything in my computer works fine with one exception. If i need to restart the computer because of something i installed, or just to restart it, it goes all the way through the bios, goes to where XP should start loading up and hangs there. If at that point i hit the reset button it boots up normally, but it hangs off of a restart from windows. I need help trying to figure out why this is happening and what i can do to fix it. Thanks in advance for the help!!

 

[meltdown75]

Hmm... that is strange behaviour. Did you recently change your hard drive configuration? Do you get any specific errors and what is the nature of the "hang"? BSOD?

You might have to reinstall again, or at least have to repair your current install - maybe run System File Checker? just a couple suggestions... hmm.. g/l

 

[iLL0gIcaL]

nope no BSOD....no errors.....after it posts from the bios on restart and checks the ram and shows me my IDE card, it comes to just where windows would stop loading and stops. I dont think it will need a reinstall, cuzz this is a fresh install after yesterday, just a bunch of new hardware. How do i run system file checker?

 

[meltdown75]

Can you get into safe mode? Well - assuming you can get to the desktop, go to start > run > and enter "sfc" and hit enter. You may be asked to insert your Windows CD. I'm somewhat grasping at straws with that - but the fact of the matter is sometimes we have no choice but to either do a reinstall or at least a repair of a current install... g/l

 

[meltdown75]

Also - the biggest concern for me when I look at your specs is your storage setup. You have 2 IDE drives, 1 SCSI and 3 optical drives. Not that there is anything wrong with that - but the likelihood of some type of drive configuration error increases when you have that many drives - perhaps one is not configured properly ie. jumpers, IDE cable, etc. Something to check.

 

[iLL0gIcaL]

the drives are all hooked up on ide......windows is running on my barracuda so there should be no hardware issues there.