Or you can go into safe mode/control panel/system/device manager and look
for duplicate items. In the past I have been able solve this problem by
simply deleting the extra duplicate icons of each item in the device
manager.
However, there have been times when Windows will rediscover the same
duplicate items on the next reboot  and reinstall these items before your
bootup to Windows platform finishes. Try it and see if this will solve your
issue.
PS while your in there check for conflicts between devices as well! (IRQ and
I/O)

Good Luck
Barry Clark
MCSE/CCNA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Forever booting into safe mode


> I have had this problem on various machines.
> Windows plug and play is having trouble
> with the enumeration of your hardware.
> It is even worse if the hardware is "close"
> but not close enough to know it is wrong.
> Sometimes you can overcome it, and lots
> of times you can not.
> If you have a simple system, I agree with
> Chuck - generally.
> You can spend more time trying to
> patch it up than starting from scratch.
>
> If your system has lots of data and not too much clutter,
> you could always try one of the less aggressive ways
> of re-installing Windows, like on top of itself, or
> re-naming the Windows directory and doing a new
> default install... Either of these has risks, and be sure
> to have your driver disks and programs ready just in case
> for "over the top" and for sure with a re-name of Windows.
> If you are only getting to safe mode now, you certainly
> need to try something!         Rick Glazier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
> > I replaced an Asus P3v4X with a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 mobo because the
> Asus passed away.  On first boot it immediately installed doubles of
almost
> everything.  In safe mode, device manager, hard disk controllers, I have
two
> primary IDE and two secondary IDE channels (in Windows it only shows one
of
> each).  I have tried to delete them so that Windows could correctly
> reinstall one of each...
>
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