This is imnportsnt advice. The CMOS stores the configuration. When you add memort, especially if it happens to be where the boot ROM loads itslef, if the CMOS is not in a state of grace, it won't...

That's because on this occasion I was a tosser who knows stuff. Here's the PDF attached.

See the attached link (loads a PDF). If you follow the instructions but substituting UK English and going down to the Keyboard subsection and completing your settings there, maybe you'll restore...

So what happened with the steps I suggested? It should always boot from a Windows CD.

Which splash screen? Boot or Windows? Detail is important as Frank Wallis implies is important.

If you haven't heard any multiple beeps and no stop message, you've passed the MBR stage and the...

OK - so you've pasted part of my reply in post #8.

What's your point?

Then you are going to have to repair Windows.

This is as good as any guide:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-repair-Windows-XP-t138.html

Have a look at the attached PDF.

You've got at least as far as the Kernel Load portion of the boot process.

If the bar isn't the rectangles I mentioned but is like a bar meter, then you've...

Has there been any change to your system? New hardware or new drivers?

In the BIOS, is the Hard Disk 0 set as the first Boot device?

Do you get as far as the moving rectangles going across the...

What is the error message that goes with this BSOD?
Is it "Inaccessible Boot Device"?

Also what's your configurastion, particulary disk drive(s) and disk controller.

Good suggestion.

I suppose it's how you interpret the OP. Yours is probably what the OP meant.

Use the repair function when you click on the connexion icon. That's the first step. You could also go to the CMD console and type IPCONFIG /ALL and provide the results back to us.

It may well...

.... to someone (or something) who logs in.

It's only by logging on to a server that you discover whether or not it is working correctly.

Have you got the correct Character Encoding set?

Arabic (ISO-8859-6)
Arabic (Windows-1256)

I'm by no means an expert on this - but no one else has found a way of helping you either.

And is...

Is there any clue for you in this article:

http://www.interproinc.com/articles.asp?id=0301

Search on the string "Bi-directional languages" where there is a potential explanation. What you do...

HDD won't prevent POST.

Your approach is sound and on what you've said so far, I'd suspect memory.

If I've understood you correctly, replaced (different) RAM works OK, original RAM doesn't. Is...

There could be any of (at least) three reasons for this in likely order of probability:

1/
There is a trojan that is corrupting memory. Scan using Anti-Malwarebytes.

2/
There is a memory...

Hi Zman420.

Did you notice the date on the post you replied to? November 2005!

Nevertherless, good advice for future members with the same problem who search before they ask!

Talk about attitude. You've got a cheek.

The posts you are criticising are several years old.

Then if you look through the thousands of past posts, youll see all the SOLVEDs that this forum...

get the computer back to its previous state. i.e. RAM and CD burner. Take everything new away and see what happens.

The variety of BSOD errors indicates a RAM problem to me but it could be...

It's vague words like "first page" and "boot up page" that leave us not knowing exactly where you're at. And you didn't say what the disk was doing.

I'll assume that it's done the POST part of...

Not enough info. "did a restart" - what's that?

On booting, is there anything on the screen before the J/

Any disk light flashing to indicate disk activity?

If not the virus theory (because I've just registered what you said in your first post about the clean install & slipstream) the (much as I hate to say it) jccaldz may have given you the right...

Justify this statement, please. In detail, please.

I'd buy the virus theory - or the wrong driver in the splipstream disk. Anti-malwarebytes would flush this out. When you're sure there's no virus issue, a reload of drivers would remove suspicion...

A lot more information than this is required to help ypu.

Then go to the Virus/Spyware forum and follow the reporting & cleaning process there. Or simply try the Anti-MalwareBytes cleanser I mentioned earlier.

You can check for & remove malware with Anti-MalwareBytes (see the Virus/Spyware forum for details).

If the network card is working OK (light is on and no problem in Device Manager), then did you...

Does the laptop work wired?

I've never heard of a mianstream AV screwing up an OS. A mains glitch, perhaps, or a Virus that AVG didn't pick up or damage to files that AV wouldn't pick up because the damage occurred before you...

Difficult to diagnose at a distance. But might there be a power supply problem? Fans can run, disks can whirr but if the power loom to the mobo isn't propperly fed, then anything can happen.

Nah - nothing to do with a program that demands resources.

Are the fans running and not blocked? i.e. is the PC overheating, perhaps?

Might there be a metal chad that expands with heat,...

Are you sure that the computer is properly switched off? If it isn't, the disk could glitch nd it will be checked on boot up because shutdown was not complete.

Or this?

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/236559-quick-launch-disappears-when-rebooting.html

Is this a Blue Screen Error? Could we have as much error text as possible please?

I think you've got all the swap around angles covered so that you can eventually narrow it down to either the card or the mobo. If it's not the card, I wouldn't p*ss around with the mobo if you're...

How about this then?

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread7898.html

Looks absolutely fine to me.

Have you tried installing TWEAKUI. It's a long shot but if you go to the General sub-category and check the box labelled Prevent Apps from Stealing Focus.

Let us...