windows xp boot problem

[hungrygoose]

ok....gotta dual boot setup that i just setup......2k and xp......the reason for this setup are irrelevant to the topic so please don't start with the "why have this type of dual boot setup comments"....i have three partitions on a 80gb hard drive (5gb,5gb, and 70gb).....on the first i installed(first) 2k....it is up and running fine as i am typing this thread on it as we speak.....the third is all of my programs and files and stuff.....the second, is where i tried installing winxp pro.....i get all the way through the installation process and when it goes to restart and startup for the first time, i get a BSOD...stop error 0x0000007E (........)the error gives no comment as to what the problem was it just says this an error was found and was stopped so to not harm my system......it will boot into safe mode unless i try safe mode with networking which results in the same blue screen.....i tried the ol cold boot thing to no avail.....i have tried running repair as well as formatting and reinstalled three different times to no avail........my setup is as follows

athlon xp 1700
abit kd7
256mb crucial ddr 2100
antec 300w
WD 80gb
gainward geforce 4 ti4200
50x cdrom
yamaha 2200 CDRW
pci usb card
two usb hubs with a couple of mice, a printer, and an ati tv-usb
this system is hooked to a belkin omniport 4 port KVM switch
i think that's about it

any help is much appreciated as this is really starting to frustrate me

thnx in advance

 

[Wolf00]

I haven't seen this before, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
Because it boots fine into Safe Mode, but crashes in Safe Mode w/ Network Support, my first instinct would be a network card driver problem. Something you could check on to see if this is the case is to boot into Safe Mode and check the device manager. Is the network card there? If it is, you could try updating the drivers that are being used (download them in win2k, then reboot into xp safe mode). If the NIC doesn't show up in device manager or shows up as an unknown device, try installing the driver.
If this doesn't work, then I'm not sure what else to try. I haven't dealt with the different boot options with XP recently, but I know with previous versions of Windows (I know for sure win98, but don't know for sure on any later versions) that you could could do a step by step boot up to tell windows exactly what to load. If this is an option, you could try that to see if you can narrow down when it crashes. Also, have you tried checking the boot log (you may have to select an option in the same boot menu as safe mode to force it to log the boot). This could help you figure out what is wrong.

Hope this helps and please let us know if any of this does or doesn't work.

 

[hungrygoose]

i have already tried the network card driver idea.....didn't change anything....i'm gonna try the step by step boot idea though.....thnx for the interest