Hi, i was wondering if anyone has come across this before and might be able to help because it is driving me insane.
My system:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ 1MB (2.2)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3
Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
maxtor 500gb hdd
This problem has only started to occur a few days ago. basically windows starts to load with the blue bar going across the screen. This goes on for ages (approxamately 8 minutes) freezing at times as well. It will then blue screen and restart the PC. (unforunately it blue screens far too fast for me to read). After the PC restarts i then get the offer for windows safe mode or normal.
I choose normal mode and windows starts fine (in less than a minute) and everything appears fine.
The seagate drive is my master c drive and is split into 2 partitions. The maxtore drive is an IDE 500gb Single partition (used for storing files only).
Ive removed all unnecessary programs from startup, tried disk defragmenting but nothing appears to solve this issue. It happens every time, i can even turn the pc off while its loading windows to skip the 8 minute wait and it will then load fine (despite showing the safe mode prompt).
The thing is i did a ghost image a week ago and it was workign fine then im pretty sure. So i tried restoring this image, yet the problem is still occuring.
Does any1 know of any solution to this? Im thinking it might be a SATA issue but, the drive appears ti be healthy in SMART and the bios is set to boot from it as it normally does.
The only weird thing which i have found is boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com is also on my 500gb ide drive as wella s my sata drive. Could this be the issue? as i thought these startup files only need to be on the system/boot drive which is my SATA drive and not my IDE Drive.
Im running windows XP SP2 with IE7 and all updates applied.
Im totally stuck on this issue and would appreciate any help.
My system:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ 1MB (2.2)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3
Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
maxtor 500gb hdd
This problem has only started to occur a few days ago. basically windows starts to load with the blue bar going across the screen. This goes on for ages (approxamately 8 minutes) freezing at times as well. It will then blue screen and restart the PC. (unforunately it blue screens far too fast for me to read). After the PC restarts i then get the offer for windows safe mode or normal.
I choose normal mode and windows starts fine (in less than a minute) and everything appears fine.
The seagate drive is my master c drive and is split into 2 partitions. The maxtore drive is an IDE 500gb Single partition (used for storing files only).
Ive removed all unnecessary programs from startup, tried disk defragmenting but nothing appears to solve this issue. It happens every time, i can even turn the pc off while its loading windows to skip the 8 minute wait and it will then load fine (despite showing the safe mode prompt).
The thing is i did a ghost image a week ago and it was workign fine then im pretty sure. So i tried restoring this image, yet the problem is still occuring.
Does any1 know of any solution to this? Im thinking it might be a SATA issue but, the drive appears ti be healthy in SMART and the bios is set to boot from it as it normally does.
The only weird thing which i have found is boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com is also on my 500gb ide drive as wella s my sata drive. Could this be the issue? as i thought these startup files only need to be on the system/boot drive which is my SATA drive and not my IDE Drive.
Im running windows XP SP2 with IE7 and all updates applied.
Im totally stuck on this issue and would appreciate any help.