Hopefully not, as this is a new HD that I just got about three weeks ago. I'll try booting from the Windows disk.

No. It prints the list of drivers that are loaded for Safe Mode, then goes right back to POST.

I unplugged them all and I think it was my printer that was messing it up. Something about this thing. Anyway, it no longer hangs on "USB Controllers Initializing...", but it still will NOT boot into...

Last night my computer froze as I was using Firefox. Unable to shut it down normally, I powered it down. Today, I turned it on, expecting it to either come up normally or scan the disk, what it...

I was sent a file by email, and downloaded it into a folder. Ever since, then, every time I attempt to left-click, all icons/files to the left and above it become highlighted. For example, if I have...

Ok, thanks. I guess I'll have to get on buying a new disk right away then. -__-

I was playing a game when it froze. I powered down the computer and restarted. It began to loop from the POST messages all the way to the XP splash screen, over and over. After a few times, I got a...

Okay so I have two rars that i need to extract into an iso, in APP+K.part001.rar and APP+K.part002.rar format. However, when I extract APP+K.part001.rar, thinking it should extract the BOTH of them...

All right, everything seems to be spiffy now. Thanks all you guys for helping me out.

Wow, I cannot find drivers for Realtek RTL8139 anywhere.

Apparently. The only problem I have now is that my internet connection seems to be spottier than usual after I took out my ethernet card and then put it back in.

NICE I got it to not stick there. I actually. Changed the AGP Aperture, and then disabled everything unnecessary. It's currently installing hitch-free.

All right, I'll see what I can do.

ASUS P4S800D-X mobo
ATI Radeon 9600
512MB DDR-DIMM
Pentium 4 3.0 with HT
RealTek PCI 10/100 Ethernet card
Some sort of Creative v.92 modem adapter ...

I have disabled that stuff and physically taken out the two network cards in my computer, but it still hangs at 32 minutes. What gives? I must be missing something.

I disabled something that said "Onboard SiS900 Lan DEVICE", but I still get the hangup at 32 mins.

wait, nevermind. What sort of adapters should i be looking for?

So I go into BIOS setup and disable any USB or Firewire devices? I see "Onboard SiS USB2.0 DEVICE", do I disable it?

I restarted windows installation, and it seems to hang up on "installing network".

All right. It gets stuck on "installing network".

Damn. Setup has told me it will complete in approximately 32 minutes for a good...15 minutes now. Dammit, install the damn network!

EDIT: 45 minutes now

Nice. Setup is now continuing properly.

All right, I got it to go into recovery console. For some reason the problem was in keeping the installation CD in the drive each time I rebooted. I needed to take it out and put it in when I needed...

No, unfortunately. It seems like if I boot from the win XP disk, it wants to continue the existing installation, rather than letting me start a new one, which would probably solve the problem. And...

When I boot from the XP CD, it automatically restarts setup. So I can't simply choose recovery console. In addition, I can't go directly to the boot options menu by hitting F8 or F12.

Nope. If I boot from the hard drive, it thinks that windows setup hasn't completed, so it gives me the same damn error message. I'll try booting from the XP disk again.

EDIT: Okay, if I boot from...

Yeah it's pretty much shite. Anyway, I'm back to where it goes into safe mode, says it has to restart because I'm in safe mode, then promptly goes into safe mode again. It's ugly. Thanks for the help...

Crap. Okay it just got worse. Before attempting the repair operation, I thought it might be a good idea to run some antivirus utilities from another boot disk. While perusing the various utilities on...

Oh, and I can't change the boot mode from Safe Mode to normal either, because when I hit F8, I get a menu with my four drives on it, and if I select the main hard drive, it does not give me those...

Okay, It just got worse. I thought that perhaps reinstalling windows might help, but it didn't. I booted from the XP disk and began setup, only to find that it gives me the error message "Windows XP...

Okay here's the situation. I was trying to make Daemon Tools 4.03 work by using SPTD Deleter, which required me to install both the .NET framework and WMI.
I could only use SPTD Deleter in...

My computer had been working perfectly until just about an hour ago, when I powered on and witnessed the Asus motherboard splash screen sit there for a good five to ten minutes. Patient man I am, I...

Anything? Just need a little help here.

When I attempt to boot up it shows me the POST messages, then the Windows XP loading screen. After a couple of minutes it returns to the POST messages. I can boot Windows if I boot up from the boot...

I went to the BIOS and set it to all the defaults, and now it attempts to start the OS, but it now loops on start again. Might this be a virus?

device. Last time it would loop on start, but I system restored and it was just fine. I'm thinking that I could boot from a Windows XP CD and fix the boot settings, but the thing is, I don't have a...

It's running XP Pro, everything seems to be connected fine. Recently I'd opened the case up to remove an old CD-RW drive that was malfunctioning, but I fixed the drive and returned it back to its...