gheron Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 (edited) Hi Guys, I apologise in advance for what might be a long winded post!I recently built my own rigAthlon 64 3500+Asus A8n-Sli Deluxe1Gb CorsairAsus 6600 256Mb200Gb SATA20Gb IDEAnyways, everything was going well with my machine, and then I oticed a noise from the chipset fan, which Asus has confirmed is defective on there A8n board, they offred to send me there updated heatsink/fan but I decided to go for the Zalman Northbridge heatsink everybody was suggesting.Successfully installed it last night.Before I got my heatsink, while still using the old one, I noticed that my version of XP on my IDE when booting was hanging with a very faint screen on the winXP logo, then suddenly after 20 seconds it would brighten up and the progress bar would move and boot normally, I just put it down to the chipset overheating with the fan being faulty. It wasnt happening for my SATA install of XP (have a MCE 2005 and SP2 version).After installing the new Zalman I thought it would be fixed, but now it is happening for both drives. SATA and IDE.I had thought it could be to do with Micorsoft Media Deskop, wireless keyboard and mouse that I have, it does not seem to work in the bios screen, I cant actually use it untill XP loads. Have tried enabling USB legacy support.Has anybody got any ideas? If you can be bothered to read this post!!CheersGraemeTitle Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian Edited December 13, 2005 by Zxian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f14 Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 (edited) You can add a new line with "/SOS" switch in the boot.ini file. This switch causes the names of drivers to be displayed as they load during boot. Maybe you could find the defective driver. Edited December 14, 2005 by f14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gheron Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 CheersI might give that a go and see what is causing it, bet its something to do with nforce4, seem to have nothing but problems with that.Can you give me a guide on adding that switch in, havent tried anything like that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f14 Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 (edited) Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Settings of "Startup and Recovery" -> Click the "Edit" button. When the notepad opens, copy the line like "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect" to a new line, and change to "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional SOS" /SOS". (these digitals maybe are different, copy yours). Then restart. Choose the "Microsoft Windows XP Professional SOS" item as XP begins to boot. Edited December 14, 2005 by f14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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