I just got a new SATA hard drive, installed Windows XP Pro on it, installed my MB chipset drivers, video drivers, etc. Now when I start up, I see that Windows XP Pro "loading screen" (a black screen with the XP Pro logo, and a little blue bar moving across the bottom) for about 4 or 5 minutes, then Windows starts and runs normally). With my old slow HD, I used to see that blue bar go across its little box two or three times (maybe 8 seconds).
The only thing I changed was the HD, from two IDE 160's in RAID 0 to a single SATA Raptor.
I probably just have a bad RAM stick or something, though I've been using these DIMMs for quite a while now. I will run memtest tonight to check both sticks. But in case that's not it, have you seen this before? If so, do you know what causes this?
Thanks.
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Hi Votey,Welcome to PCHF, my sincerest apologies for the delay in answering your post. Have you determined if your RAM was indeed causing the problem? If your memtest was clean, I would look to my BIOS, is it the most current version? Looking forward to your reply, TTFN LGW
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