PC WONT BOOT PAST XP LOADING SCREEN

[tauripip]

Hi,
I am hopin there is a genius who will be able to assist me, here goes with the long sad story :-

Had the dreaded missing NTDR missing problem, the only way we over come this was to litterally make 2pcs out of 3 using motherboard (good and working fine) from one and an old 10gb hard drive from another. Anyway to cut along story short the "new" pc installed windows xp pro fine and was up and running for a short while. Then it would not get past the initial boot up sequence, solved this problem with a new CMOS battery, put in a new one of these and pc booted up straight away and ran great, only problem was there was no on-board sound. No problem installed a new Phillips sound card............now this is where problem starts,

installed the sound card, pc found new hardware.....turned off on board sound card in BIOS as directed in installation manual supplied by Phillips, this went OK, then installed the new sound card drivers from the supplied disk.again this went thru ok and then it had to restart..............and now it wont get past loading xp on startup. It gets to the stage of the loading lights running under the xp pro logo and it wont go any further, the screen stays at this stage, doesnt go black as alot of other people seem to have a problem with, just hangs at this stage. I have checked all the connections etc and everything is ok.
Seeing as there wasnt much on the hard drive to worry about i thought ok, we'll just reinstall xp again, altered the BIOS to boot from CRROM drive first, the pc recognises this and will try and get me to press any key to boot from CD but i have tried 3 keyboards to try and get it to actually realize i am pressing any key but it will NOT boot from the CD as it wont recognise that i have pressed any key. (Thought it may be that the keyboard with this pc as it is a cordless one so tried the keyboard i am using to type this [plug in] but no luck tried another keyboard and still same problem). Thought it cant be the keyboard any way as it works fine in changing the BIOS so PC recognises the keyboard at this stage.

Right have gone on enough now and the depression is setting in all over again So please someone out there must have some suggestions for me to try (not the suggestion of chucking the thing out the window as i've come close to doing this already).

Let me know if you have any brain waves, i'm off to take the anti depressants this blasted pc has left me relying on.

Thanks in advance for any help
tauripip
tauripip@aol.com

[tauripip]

Oh sorry i forgot to say i reset the CMOS settings when i installed the new CMOS battery so this isnt the problem, and if i try to get xp to load back to last working settings i still have the same problem and if itry to start up in safe mode i get a screen full of the "checks" on bootup and then it freezes there, will not boot any further. The pc has not been on the net so no virus's etc for this to be the problem.

The problem pc is a secondry pc, (this being the main one) so we were hoping to be able to network the 2 (net work cards installed in both) but the net working hasnt worked as yet so i can not boot from the network either so i dont have that option.

Please someone help me out here, i am offically out of my depth now, thanks all
tauripip
tauripip@aol.com

[shaundolphin]

Sounds like a conflict to me - ok take out the soundcard and re-enable on board sound if it then boots ok then the only thing i can think at the moment is a conflict or a faulty card!!
Sorry if i can think of any other suggestions i will get back to you good luck! shaun

[tauripip]

Thanks Shaun for your help, but sorry to say i have tried that and i still get to the same stage it still wouldnt load past the xp lights stage. I did wonder if it could be something to do with it being too low on power (not sure how else to phrase it). The original pc which is the main basis to this put together one sat around for about 2 years without being used at all (think this was why the CMOS battery fired up the once and then died on me), but the annoying thing is it did work fine for a short while and now this. Seriously thinking of binning the thing and getting a new one, but even if i do this i wouldnt mind knowing what could have been the cause of this head ache.
Thanks again Shaun, any more ideas please let me know ta
tauripip

[paul9]

try using a win 98/me boot floppy. scandisk the hd (unless it is ntfs, i don't know if scandisk will work on that) and use the boot floppy to access your xp install cd for a new install. also, did you turn off integrated midi/game port in your bios and reset the escd ? turn off integrated ac97 codecs, too.

[colt]

Can you boot in Safe Mode?

[shane30]

Hi, I am having a similar problem.
I have taken out a hard drive from another computer to put in my new computer which came without a hard drive (everything else was there but).. The hard drive has xp home edition installed on it and was working just dandy on my old computer. I have been into the BIOS menu to ensure it has been recognized which it has. I then boot my computer up and the xp loading screen comes up as normal, the loading bar is moving to say it is loading, however this is as far as it goes, I left the machine on over night and it was doing the same thing this morning, still loading, nothing has frozen as the loading bar is still moving, it just wont enter the the desktop screen. No errors are coming up nothing. any help would be great. I dont really want to take it to a computer dude only to be charged a couple of hundred $'s for something that is probably so stupidly simple.