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WinXP hangs at the blue strobe

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PlasmaAce

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About 1/3 of the time my system hangs at the blue strobe in the beginning of the WinXP boot process. Sometimes I'll reboot 2 - 3 times and the hard drive(s) will quit just as the blue strobe starts. If it goes past three strobe sweeps I know the HDs are off and it won't finish booting. When it boots properly the HDs continue to run during 2 - 3 passes of the blue strobing and everything is rock solid after that.

Here are some things I have tried with no joy:
boosting the voltages to the RAM, CPU, and chipset
flashed MSI bios to v1B
reinstalled RAID drivers
ran Microsoft Bootvis (good program for speeding up the boot process by the way)

This is driving me crazy. I SURRENDER! Any ideas PLEASE?

My System:
Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra
Power Supply: Seasonic S12-500 S12 Series 500W
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+
RAM: TWINX2048-3500LLPRO RAM
GPU: XFX PV-T70F-UNF7 GeForce 7800 GTX
Hard drives: 2 each, Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160812AS 160GB Serial ATA (RAID 0)
CR/RW: Plextor PX-740A
OS: WinXP Pro SP2

PlasmaAce
 
It stalls there when it is laying down patches. I've had my Athlon XP 2600+ hang for almost 5 minutes after patching. Are you sure its frozen forever?
 
I failed to mention that I did try a repair but that didn't work either.
I'll try uninstalling the IDE drivers. That sound scary but I'm not using any IDE drive so it should be OK.

Update: I uninstalled the drivers in the device manager but that didn't help. It hung on the first reboot after that.
 
The same thing happens on my PC, that has an ASUS A8N-E in it. I tried uninstalling the IDE drivers, did nothing, and I tried reinstalling from scratch without the NF4 IDE drivers... still didn't help. I wish I knew what was doing this on NF4 mobos.
 
Well at least we know that it isn't specific to our mobo manufacturer. I sent an email to Corsair thinking it might be related to the RAM but they weren't any help. MSI has never answered either of my two emails to them. GeekDrew, what kind of RAM do you have and do you have a pair of RAID 0 drives? I wonder if it could be related to that.
 
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