Yesterday I bought a new motherboard. I have connected to the motherboard a 2.2 GHz pentium 4 processor, 2 hard drives (80 and 120 GB), a dvd player and a DVD/CD re-writer. Everything is showing up in the BIOS ok.

I installed Windows XP (made no changes or installed any software after installing) and rebooted the PC. When I rebooted the PC after the initial P.O.S.T the PC hangs for about 1 - 2 minutes and I get the following error message

Hardware/profile configuration menu

This menu allows you to select a hardware profile when windows is started

If your system is not starting correctly, then you may switch to a previous system configuration, important: system configuration changes made since the last successful start up will be discarded.

Profile 1


If I choose profile 1 (the only choice) windows loads normally.


I tried reformatting again and I still get the same boot up problems.

Hi enner100.

Try to remove all unneeded hardware (i.e second drives , sound card enz) and see if windows loads ok , if it does then put youre hardware back in one at a time to see whats causing the conflict.

Thank you.

I have just noticed something. The problem only occurs when I reboot/restart the PC. If I do a cold boot of the PC it does not happen?

I have just noticed another problem if I restart the PC.



I downloaded powermax by maxtor to check my hard drives. It creates bootable floppy. If I restart the PC I get an error message that says can not load DOS! any key to retry.



If I do a cold boot of the PC the power max loads ok. If I then do a Ctrl + Alt + Delete and leave the floppy in I get the error message can not load DOS! any key to retry.



So it seems all my problems happen when I do Start > turn off computer > restart. If I do a cold boot of the PC or shut down the PC completely and on put it on again I do not get the problems?



The start up problems also only occur if I do a restart.

This may sound strange but it could be an issue with your PSU, do you have another machine that you could switch the PSU with to test.