PC only starting in Safe mode

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Darg

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Hey guys. I got into work and turned on the computer this morning only to be faced with the quite baffling freezing of windows (XP SP2) as it's loading. This happens after about 7-8 scrolly bars. It will just stop scrolling across and freeze. I left it for a few minutes to see if it would work.

I had this happen before and the craptastic Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse were to blame so I hooked in a spare PS2 keyboard and unplugged the wireless one. Still no luck. I tried enabling and disabling USB legacy support in the BIOS without luck either.

The odd thing is I can get into Safe mode with networking and the USB wireless keyboard and mouse work fine.

Does anyone know what the culprit might be? It was working fine when I left the office yesterday evening but my boss might have been in to 'play' on his gaming machine which is what I use.

The specs are:

Asus P5K,
E6320 oc'ed to 2.8Ghz,
4x1GB Geil PC6400C4,
ATi Radeon 2900XT,
X-Fi Music,
Windows XP SP2.
 
If you can start in safe mode but not normally, AFAIK this means that some of the drivers you have installed might not work because safe mode doesnt load drivers...
 
Damn boss must have tinkered last night.. He tends to do that then comes to me in the morning complaining that the computer isn't working.

Any more specific ideas as to what might be wrong? I'll try reinstalling graphics drivers and the wireless drivers I guess.
 
No luck.. tried restoring to a point yesterday and a point the day before.

God knows what's wrong.. I'm going to try reinstalling the graphics drivers but I can't see that really fixing it. arg..
 
Have you tried detaching all USB devices and booting? I know you might not have your keyboard or mouse or whatever other USB devices that you use but would remove it being a problem with it failing there. Just in the past I've had it lock at the Windows loading screen when I had bad USB drivers. Which is another point that in safe mode, I would remove all USB drivers and remove the USB devices themselves from Device Manager and let them pick themselves up again, obviously this time it should be with the default Microsoft drivers rather than the installed drivers which were removed.
 
I tried removing all usb devices but that wasn't the problem.

It seems it was an issue with the ATi drivers in the end. Uninstalling them did the trick. Booted up into windows fine after that. DC'ed in safe mode and reinstalled the drivers and now I'm back up and running. Wootage.

Thanks for all the help guys =)
 
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