I had a similar problem with a Soyo motherboard.  All the parts worked in
another machine.  Turns out the BIOS didn't support the CPU I was using.
Got a different CPU and flashed the BIOS on the Soyo.  Everything has run
fine since then.

The Windows XP start-up routines will fail under conditions that previous
Windows versions did not.

Ron Jobe
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From: "Clay Shipley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] At wits end
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format on the HDD just fine, I then inserted my Windows XP Update disk into
the DVD-ROM drive and restarted it, it read the CD, began to load the files
and when it got to the point when it said "starting windows", the computer
just shut off without warning.  I trie
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