WakeUpDead Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 Ok, I have wrote before about windows rebooting during splash screen, the load bar would freeze and then reboot. It will do this 1-5 times then it will boot ok out of the blue. Once it is up and running everything is great, stable and normal. Ive narrowed it down to this: When I hook up my DVDRW & CDROM thats when I have the problem. If I just run my HDD's its all good but once I hook up 1 or both of the ROM's it will freeze at the windows splash screen then reboot. This is what I have tryed so far: Changed ATA cable still reboots Ran only one or the other still re Messed with all combo's of jumpers still reboots Switched from secondary ATA to master ATA still reboots Pulled ot all my hair!!!! Did not help!!!! Next step.........OUT THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!! Could I have a bad board or ATA controller? Please , if you have any suggestions or ideas let me know. I have been dealing with this for 3+ months and would really like to fix it. Please, I'll try anything at this point, Please help! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madu Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 What does it say in the startup screen? does it recognize correctly? Just a thought... do u have the cd-rom as a boot up device in bios? if so try disabling it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Do you have any of the following installed:Nvidia sw ide drivers,nvidia network mgr or nvidia firewall if so uninstall. See if that helps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashthenet44 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Is this a fresh install of Windows or was it brought over from another PC? Edit: Never mind, I read your other post. My next question. Are you able to get in through safe mode with everything hooked up? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakeUpDead Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Start up after lanparty splash goes fine into windows but once there it freezes and then reboots. I beleve that all DVDF and CD are shopwing, yes they are there in bios fine. No its not the boot device. No firewall, no manager but Im not sure about the SW IDE how would I check?/ then just uninstall? Windows was a clean install and many times due to this problem I thought it was the windows OS that was the problem. But now I know its not. It would even do this during inatall of windows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakeUpDead Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Safe mode does the same thing it will reboot 1-5 times then start and then safe mode is fine. Hey thanks all for helpig me, I have a feeling that will all of you helping we might gain some ground. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 go into device mgr and under you ide drives look to see if nvidia or MS if nvidia uninstall drivers and reboot and windows will install drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakeUpDead Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 OK under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers I have: 2 Nvidia ADMA controllers and 1 Nvidia Parallel ATA controller Are these the ones that you are saying to uninstall? Or just the ATA one? These are in device manager by the way just so you know, I dont want to screw this thing up any more than it is. HAHA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Uninstall them and reboot and windows will install its own drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakeUpDead Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Ill give it a try Ill be back in a few to let you know how it workes out. Thanks for the time man ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WakeUpDead Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 well I had to do it twice cuz the first time it installed the nivida controllers again. i had to take them off agian and manualy select the standard controllers. 3 test boots.....................................It looks good man I hope that is it woooha what a pain that was and I delt with it for 3 months. I owe you a six pack man. Thanks alot you saved my system from going out the window. now I can stop growing grey hair over this. Thanks again, Brent Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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