Start Up Lock Up.

[Raze664]

Brand New 160Gig Hard Drive. Installed windows, went fine..booted..installed the drivers and some SP2 Updates for XP Home which is on a driver disc which I got with comp. Computer now locks up on the "Windows is loading" on the blue screen, Not BSoD..The Welcome one. The pixel depth must be only 8bit, and it wont load from there. Any suggestions.

Spec is Roughly

P4 2.8 + Hyper Threading
512 Ram
Nvidia 6200GS TC 64/256mb.




Tested SafeMode(wont boot)
Tested Boot Order(wont boot)

 

[Trotter]

Format and try again?

 

[Raze664]

I was trying to avoid that.

Guess I have no choice.