Epox 8K3A+ stop on blue-bar screen Xp

[iname1030]

Dear Sirs and guys,
I write from Italy and I have the last version of bios,drivers installed on Motherboard 8K3A+ and Raid Conrtroller High Point 372.
The O/S is Windows Xp Professional installed on first disk on Raid-0 (I have created in RAID BIOS Configuration Utility one RAID 0
and two partitions on Raid D:\ and F:\);another disk is on first channel IDE and is C:\ (the O/S place for boot.ini,ntldr etc) and
on Adaptec 2940 UW Pro I have disk E:\ with another O/S -Xp
Just right:
C:\ on IDE primary channel (noO/S but file for boot)
D:\ on controller High Point 372 RAID 0 and O/S installed (on RAID utiliy HDD1 and boot disk)
E:\ SCSI disk and another O/S (windows XP)
F:\ on controller High Point 372 RAID 0 no O/S (on RAID utility disk it's disk hidden)
G:\CD SCSI bootable

In the BIOS ->ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES in CMOS UTILITY BOOT I have settings for boot:
**ATA RAID or SCSI Card Boot: RAID-
**First BOOT:HDD 1-
**Second BOOT :SCSI-
**Third BOOT:SCSI-
**ETC.....

Now the problem:
-I installed the first O/S on disk SCSI and I have no problem.
-I installed the second O/S on RAID (Principal O/S ) and work
for some time.
-Now when boot the system and start Windows Xp it's stop
on screen we have the blu-bar on movement and I reboot
it's the same:the system stop.
-I have reinstalled the 0/S and the drivers of many cards and
perfherials more time but its' the same:no problem of drivers.
-I have controlled in the BIOS and **FIRST BOOT DISK is
setting on HDD-0 !! Why?I have setting it on HDD-1!
-I go on RAI BIOS Configuration Utility (Ctrl+H) and the boot disk is HDD-0 !!
-OK for few time the system re-work but I have always the new stop at
blu-bar and,the setting in BIOS it's OK but Ihave only one possibilty:
reinstal everything.No posible work in this situation.

How can I fix this problem?
I hope in your help and thanks in advance for your interesting.

Best regards.
Have fun.
Adriano Tabaglio:nervous:

[iname1030]

Anyone have an idea for this issue?
Thanks.

[Bring the Noise]

I had a similar problem with XP when going from the 2312 bios to the 2616 bios (or the 2629's can't remember which one it was exactly).

The only way I could get windows to come up and run correctly is by repairing windows with the install cd.

I did not go with the first option to repair... I went threw the load up of the drivers (did F6 and installed Highpoint drivers), and went threw the agreement of the EULA. Once the setup got to detecting previous Windows Os's I highlighted the one I wanted and hit "R" to repair it. It keeps all of your personnal settings, passwords, and what not... but rebuilds XP to the version thats on the CD (which means you will need to update with all the fix packs again).

If that doesn't work then you will probably have to clean out the system32 folder.

Question... if you hit F8 during load up and choose safemode (with our without networking) which file does it hang on. That file should be located in the Windows/System32 folder (XP and 2K use System32 like 9x did the System folder). If you can not boot because of a bad DLL (it has happened to people in the past). Then do the following

Start it in safemode, and write down the name of the file it hangs on (give it 2 to 5 minutes depending on your cpu speed before you say its hung). Once you have that file name boot with a boot floppy (hopefully your box is not NTFS partitions). Go into the "Windows/System32" folder for that copy of your OS (you said you had 2 copies of XP on your box). Rename that file from what ever its orginial name to (oldname).old. Then try to bring the system up in safemode again. If it comes up in safemode, then right click on that file you renamed and find out what its for/what company made it etc... then get a newer copy of that file.

I found that out after I repaired my box.

Hopefully that will help you get your box back up and running with out loosing your data... Data loss sucks much ass!!!