Problems with P4c800-e Booting into windows.

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My system hangs while booting into windows xp pro.
I took another drive and re installed window, it copied all the files
over and then rebooted. While starting up it stopped in the same place
as before with the blue line moving across the little box.

I got it to boot 1 time with nothing connected but the hard drive, but
can't duplicate it again. I have tried moving the memory around with
it just locking in different places.

I have one stick of 512 and 2-256's crucial, I really don't think it's
the memory for in my experience if any is bad windows xp won't install
at all. Just in case those I have put in 1 stick at a time in
different banks to make sure.

The only other things I can think if might be is CPU or motherboard.
The CPU did get a bit hot using the Asus monitor it got up to 75
degrees so I took it off and reseated it with arctic sliver.
The Cpu has never been overclocked.

I have a Intel 3.2 with a Maxtor 250 hd. I have re-partitioned it and
formatted it, also I have ran the Maxtor utilities on it looking for
bad sectors and found none along with another Maxtor drive.

Any Ideas why it won't boot? Thanks very much I'm stumped.
 
herman said:
My system hangs while booting into windows xp pro.
I took another drive and re installed window, it copied all the files
over and then rebooted. While starting up it stopped in the same place
as before with the blue line moving across the little box.

I got it to boot 1 time with nothing connected but the hard drive, but
can't duplicate it again. I have tried moving the memory around with
it just locking in different places.

I have one stick of 512 and 2-256's crucial, I really don't think it's
the memory for in my experience if any is bad windows xp won't install
at all. Just in case those I have put in 1 stick at a time in
different banks to make sure.

The only other things I can think if might be is CPU or motherboard.
The CPU did get a bit hot using the Asus monitor it got up to 75
degrees so I took it off and reseated it with arctic sliver.
The Cpu has never been overclocked.

I have a Intel 3.2 with a Maxtor 250 hd. I have re-partitioned it and
formatted it, also I have ran the Maxtor utilities on it looking for
bad sectors and found none along with another Maxtor drive.

Any Ideas why it won't boot? Thanks very much I'm stumped.
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I don't recall seeing a blue line moving across the screen on my system. Are
you sure its a blue line in a little box?

Try booting again with everything removed but the hd and video. If it boots
properly try adding one thing at a time to isolate the critter. If it
doesn't, try installing Windows with the hd and video only.

Was that 75 degrees C? Kind of hot for an Intel Processor. I think that's
the limit. Check Intel's site.

Run this to find out if memory or mb is at fault:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
 
Clark said:
I don't recall seeing a blue line moving across the screen on my system. Are
you sure its a blue line in a little box?

Try booting again with everything removed but the hd and video. If it boots
properly try adding one thing at a time to isolate the critter. If it
doesn't, try installing Windows with the hd and video only.

Was that 75 degrees C? Kind of hot for an Intel Processor. I think that's
the limit. Check Intel's site.

Run this to find out if memory or mb is at fault:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
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My PC wouldn't boot afterward so i formatted my Hard Disk and
reinstalled XP and it all worked fine. I was planning to format shortly
anyway so it worked out well.

--Josh
 
Well it looks like its the mother board. I took the Hd out and put it
on another computer and it couldn't read it. I then installed windows
on it and put it back in to the original computer and it still gets
stuck loading windows and stuff now pops up in the bios that wasn't
enabled is now enabled so I'm taking the motherboard back.
 
I am having the same problem with a P4C800 deluxe. Windows will boot ok on a
160 gig hard drive but not on a 200gig or 250 gig drive. It will allways
reboot at about the 4-5th line (scrolling across).
I reformated and installed SP1 and it worked ok (rules out the MB and bios)
but as soon as I updated to SR2 it would reboot (I didn't add any drivers
except the mb inf file). I uninstalled the Sr2 update (Microsofts
suggestion) and it rebooted.
Presently both myself and Microsoft at are a loss -- any suggestions.
 
I am having the same problem with a P4C800 deluxe. Windows will boot ok on a
160 gig hard drive but not on a 200gig or 250 gig drive. It will allways
reboot at about the 4-5th line (scrolling across).
I reformated and installed SP1 and it worked ok (rules out the MB and bios)
but as soon as I updated to SR2 it would reboot (I didn't add any drivers
except the mb inf file). I uninstalled the Sr2 update (Microsofts
suggestion) and it rebooted.
Presently both myself and Microsoft at are a loss -- any suggestions.
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Is the CPU a Prescott? some motherboard require a bios upgrade before
they will work with the Prescott CPU and Win XP SP2. This is well
documented on Intel's web page and some MB web sites. I ran into this
problem with a PCChip MB.

And yes, the blue progress bar will hang after about 2 or 3 pass
through. I cannot believe that MS did not know about the issue with
the Prescott CPU and SP2, Intel sure knows about it.
 
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