System restarts when booting

[getem]

My system is now going nuts. I have not been able to get my computer to boot up a single time with 2 different hard drives. One is a Maxtor 20GIG ATA133 and would not boot, so I got a windows98 CD and ran fdisk and made a whole new partition and now windows setup will not run and the powermax diagnostic will not run. The other hard drive is the one I had before with a proven good install of windows xp that was up and running as of friday. I select go with last known good config and the windows xp loading screen will come up for about 1 sec and the system will restart. Is there any way I can hault the system or find out whats going on? All I have connected are the hard drive, video card, memory, cpu, and a single CDRW drive.

XP2400
Geil 2700DDR 512MB
Asus A7N8X Deluxe

 

[LiLithTecH]

Can you boot into SAFE MODE (WinXP drive)?
Did you try using FIXBOOT or doing a REPAIR from the XP CD?

On the 20 gig drive, you may want to FDISK /mbr (as it might be corrupted).

 

[getem]

Its impossible to boot the XP CD. I cannot boot into ANY mode and when it goes through loading filed from the XP CD, it will say starting windows and will come to a stop error IRQL_LESS_THAN etc error.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Sounds like one of the MEMORY Modules may be bad.

You may want to remove one at a time and check.

Also, is there any of CODE Set on Diagnostic LEDs?

 

[Knightlife]

This probably won't be true, but you could try plugging your drives into a different IDE channel on your motherboard to see if the primary one broke (or whatever the drive is plugged into now).

 

[getem]

Ok, well I've made another discovery, that I am also the victim of an MUP.sys malfunction. Some google searching said that this is a known problem and now I need to know how I can boot up to a console and access C: drive by some other means than bootdisks or an XPCD both of which will not work.