Problems booting Windows XP, works fine in safe mode

[BPiersol]

I'm totally lost on this issue. First my system specs:
Gigabyte K8NS-939 motherboard
Athlon 64 3200+ processor
1 GB Ultra brand pc3200 ddr dual channel (2 x 512)
Maxtor 80 gig Sata 7200 rpm HDD
Pioneer DVR-106 DVD-RW
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD-RW
Sony 3.5" floppy drive
ThermalTake Silent Pure Power 420w power supply
ThermalTake Blue Orb II CPU cooler
Raidmax Samurai tower

Now the problem.
My computer will reboot perfectly fine. If I completely shut down for more than 10 minutes, the pc will not boot windows again unless I Boot into safe mode with networking and let it warm up for around 5-10 minutes, then click reboot. Seems like from a total cold startup it needs to warm up before it will boot normally into Windows.

When it errors out and reboots itself, the blue screen pops up while the monitor shows the Windows XP screen with the blue scroll bar scrolling. It will then lock up and a blue error screen will flash. Then it reboots itself. It will repeat this procedure an unlimited number of times or until I boot it into safe mode and leave the pc sit for 10 minutes, then click shutdown and reboot. Then it will boot windows normally.

I have tried different ram, different hdd, and a new floppy drive. I have formatted and re-installed windows 3 times. I just do not understand what could be doing this. All of my drivers are up to date. Everything was working fine before, for around 6 months. It just started doing this one day.

Anybody have any ideas????

 

[stevty2889]

Disable automatic restarts so you can see what the blue screen actualy is to try and isolate the problem. Right click my computer, properties, advance, start up and recovery seettings, uncheck automaticly restart. Run memtest to make sure your memory is stable. Could be driver related. Does it run fine once you get it in to windows?

 

[BPiersol]

Will do once I have to restart again. I just got it up and running again after a 45 minute fiasco of trying everything. Seems that my method of booting into safe mode, then restarting quit working. Now it just boots when it feels like it.

I have done the steps above and will write down the error once I restart.

To answer the lasst question above, yes it runs perfect once windows boots.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Did the rig once boot normally? Could be a cracked trace on the mb, or even an add-in card: warms up, expands, makes contact. Download a live Linux cd and try it. If it works, it is not hardware. If not, start with basic components, and add 1 at a time.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: BPiersol
Now the problem.
My computer will reboot perfectly fine. If I completely shut down for more than 10 minutes, the pc will not boot windows again unless I Boot into safe mode with networking and let it warm up for around 5-10 minutes, then click reboot. Seems like from a total cold startup it needs to warm up before it will boot normally into Windows.

When it errors out and reboots itself, the blue screen pops up while the monitor shows the Windows XP screen with the blue scroll bar scrolling. It will then lock up and a blue error screen will flash. Then it reboots itself. It will repeat this procedure an unlimited number of times or until I boot it into safe mode and leave the pc sit for 10 minutes, then click shutdown and reboot. Then it will boot windows normally.

I have tried different ram, different hdd, and a new floppy drive. I have formatted and re-installed windows 3 times. I just do not understand what could be doing this. All of my drivers are up to date. Everything was working fine before, for around 6 months. It just started doing this one day.

Anybody have any ideas????

Sounds like hardware, but if you'd like, you can follow the directions in my .sig (sending me any dumps from c:\windows\minidumps) and the cab file from MPSReports, and I can look at it and see if anything pops out...

 

[addikt1337]

Remove every possible card except video and leave the RAM in, then try from there. Otherwise, you can always F8 into the boot menu and choose 'last known good configuration' if at one point it booted ok. You could also try a system restore point if you actually use that feature.