Greetings Gurus,
 With the great help from so many of you, I got my first build project up and
running. After a few weeks of "low-key" usage, I decided to put it to the
test and loaded the DOOM3 game. Although the first 3 or 4 tries kept hanging up
when I put in the 3rd cd, it finally loaded. but when I started the game it
would load the game up to the point of playing then kick me back to windows
desktop with a grey background instead of the image that's usually there. DOOM 3 is
a very demanding game as far as the graphics, bitmapping, shading, etc. so I
figured the agp settings needed to be adjusted. Due to my impatient
"get-r-done" state of mind, instead of trying one change at a time, I changed 3 or 4
different settings both in the card and the bios such as apeture (4x to 8x since
my card is supposed to opperate at either) and another "speed" setting from
normal to turbo. When I rebooted, I didn't even get a signal to my monitor so I
couldn't get into bios to restore previous settings. Sooo... next I used the
mobo jumper to reset the bios(?) and was able to get a signal to monitor and
enter the bios. No matter what settings I try (last working, failsafe,normal)
Windows won't load. If I try failsafe or last working, it acts as though it's
loading and the progress bar moves from left to right as it should but when it
gets all the way across (a solid bar) it hangs there and does no more.
 Will I need to re-install windows since I used the mobo jumper? not sure
where to go from here.
   -Soyo sy-P4I865PE plus dragon2 mobo
   -P4 3.2 ht processor
   -ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro
   -Corsair xms 1 gig (x2) memory
   Sony crx 230a-u cd writer

     TIA!
  Phillip Williams

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