which hardware fail?

[Guest]

My mobo is Matsonic with labels MSCLE 266-F v3.0A and chipset VIA/VT8235.
Because it getting too frequent that when I boot up, it goes to the boot
menu and cannot get further, So just did a clean xp installation and
activated it.

As I do not have the mobo cd, I downloaded the VIA/S3GCLEA266 graphic from
VIA website. It seems ok (without restart after the graphic installation) and
I then d/l the audio and run the setup as instructed. It restart by itself
and now I have a Black Hole or screen rather. When i boot up in ' Safe mode',
it load the drivers
multi (0).......................\ntoskrnl.exe till midway and stop at
multi (0).......................\windows\app patch\drvmain.sdb and freeze
here. I noticed that the cpu fan also stop (AMD processor). It will not boot
up to the Last Known Good Configuration (the Led will just hang there)

Please what shall I do to ascertain which partfails, thank you

 

[NotMe]

If I read your post correctly, I would say it is the driver not the
hardware.
Can you boot from the XP CD and get the install screen to load? Or does that
fail as well?

 

[NoStop]

My mobo is Matsonic with labels MSCLE 266-F v3.0A and chipset VIA/VT8235.
Because it getting too frequent that when I boot up, it goes to the boot
menu and cannot get further, So just did a clean xp installation and
activated it.

As I do not have the mobo cd, I downloaded the VIA/S3GCLEA266 graphic from
VIA website. It seems ok (without restart after the graphic installation)
and
I then d/l the audio and run the setup as instructed. It restart by
itself and now I have a Black Hole or screen rather. When i boot up in '
Safe mode', it load the drivers
multi (0).......................\ntoskrnl.exe till midway and stop at
multi (0).......................\windows\app patch\drvmain.sdb and freeze
here. I noticed that the cpu fan also stop (AMD processor). It will not
boot
up to the Last Known Good Configuration (the Led will just hang there)

Please what shall I do to ascertain which partfails, thank you

Try another power supply unit.


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[Guest]

Yes, can boot from cd and get the install screen to load and what shall I do
next? Reformat and install the xp or repair window xp installation using
Recovery Console or F3 to quit Setup. Please advice, thanks