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Hey all,
First post here - wahoo :)

Anyway, I have a home built system that I've had for years, just slow partial upgrades all the time to the beast it is now!!

Anyway, just moved from the UK to Oz and so stripped my machine down and brought it here in pieces in hand luggage.

Rebuilt the system here and I'm having problems with it :(
(it's also got two new HD's in it that I bought just before the UK that I've now set it up on and one of which I'm using as the boot drive).

Anyway, the machine starts fine, press the power and it'll boot up with no problems and work fine. If I try to restart it however it reboots, does the memory check fine (I've also tested this with Memtest86+ and left it running for 9hrs and no errors), posts the Timing for the memory, then just before it should post all the HD info, it hangs, then reboots after a couple of seconds.

This happens consistantly.
Anyone got any ideas what could possibly be causing this?



Here's my system spec:


Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name NILAMAIN
User Name Nila

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2066 MHz (10 x 207)
Motherboard Name MSI K8N Neo (MS-7030) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (11/10/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter RADEON 9200 SERIES - Secondary (256 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 9200 SERIES (256 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon 9200 (RV280)
Monitor Dell P990 [19" CRT] (4221DB005849)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2-S - Audio Codec Interface

Storage
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce3 250 Parallel ATA Controller (v2.6)
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)
SCSI/RAID Controller VAXSCSI Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6V300F0 (279 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6B160M0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6V300F0 (279 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive HDS722512VLSA80 (120 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive IC35L180AVV207-1 (180 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive LITE-ON LTR-52246S (52x/24x/52x CD-RW)
Optical Drive TB0671B QLZ324K SCSI CdRom Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 25595 MB (18036 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 260562 MB (253084 MB free)
E: (FAT32) 9991 MB (115 MB free)
F: (NTFS) 20002 MB (6509 MB free)
G: (NTFS) 76316 MB (1953 MB free)
I: (NTFS) 24999 MB (3062 MB free)
M: (NTFS) 176691 MB (79286 MB free)
S: (NTFS) 286181 MB (85173 MB free)
W: (NTFS) 117800 MB (15416 MB free)
Total Size 974.7 GB (451.8 GB free)

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network
Network Adapter D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.C) (192.168.0.5)
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport

Peripherals
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Device General Purpose USB Hub
USB Device Logitech Microphone (Pro 3000)
USB Device Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 (08B0) #2
USB Device Logitech USB Camera (Pro 3000)
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

Problems & Suggestions
Problem Disk free space is only 1% on drive E:.
Problem Disk free space is only 3% on drive G:.

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