Dear lazyweb..

[theducks]

So our Media PC running Windows XP is a little fruity. It will cold boot, after the power has been unplugged, but if it's a restart, the thing "hangs" at the XP logo screen, only it doesn't, the bar keeps going ultra slowly. If left for a day, it still doesn't boot.

Also, during the go-slow boot, there are red and green lines in the progress bar. New mobo (Asus M3A), processor, ram, but an old PCI-E 6600GT video card.

Comments

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Nah, verbose boot shows it stopping at Mup.sys, which is usually the driver because it loads the HAL

As for temperature, I've tried running it with no lid on and it hasn't helped

[david adam <zanchey> (from livejournal.com)]

If it gets to MUP, I assume you've checked the Event Log and things.

Running with the case off may not assist. Try Motherboard Monitor and the NVIDIA Performance tools (both ugly programs but they work).