Windows XP Pro freezes, won't boot, even in Safe Mode. (giveio.sys)

[krackato]

My Rig:

ECS K7S5A motherboard
Athlon XP 1700+
40gb Maxtor Harddrive 7200rpm
Geforce 2 GTS video card
256mb Crucial PC2100 RAM

Everything is disconnected from the motherboard, so that's my entire rig at the moment. Windows XP will not boot. When I try to boot into Safe Mode, it hangs on a file called giveio.sys. I can't even boot into Safe Mode Command Prompt because it hangs on the same file. The exact line is:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\giveio.sys

If anyone has any ideas of how I can fix this, I'd be very thankful.

 

[WarCon]

Have you tried the last known good config? I am guessing probably. If you could edit the registry you would probably find the call to that file under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\giveio" or somewhere close.

You may have to go through the repair install procedure.

That file seems to allow external reading (like the smbus) and maybe controlling (via parallel port) of different things like those boy scout race tracks and hook ups to robots. If you didn't do that then you might of gotten it from MBProbe. I don't know why its locking your system though.

 

[mitaiwan82]

if you have no other way of booting into any mode of windows, you can boot up using the windows XP cd and then try to repair your current install of Windows...it should restore all the original system files without disturbing the install

 

[krackato]

I did a Windows repair, but for the life of me I don't understand why I had to. I've used this backup image on this computer before and this has never happened. A few weeks ago I changed the multiplier in my bios from 133/133 to 166/166 for the hell of it to see if it would post, but it just hung. I took out the battery from the motherboard, reset the bios settings back to 133/133 and I got the exact same giveio.sys error. (I'd forgotten how'd I'd solved it last time...) Anyway, I guess perhaps it's a motherboard setting or something. I'll just have to create another backup image of my system now that it's working.