Xp home trouble

[callmevince567]

Hi everyone,

I am having trouble with the os on my new custom build. I bought a copy of XP home Edition SP3 Oem for system builders and I saved a partition with ntfs on the hardrive. When i boot it the windows booting screen pops up wit the loading bar at the bottom, but then all of a sudden it either turns off completely or sometimes loads to the blue screen with a mouse cursor and says An Invalid Parameter was passed to a service or function. then reboots the whole processor, Sometimes when the blue screen for the next step pops up it says setup is being restarted and turns off the cpu. Much help is needed system requirements posted below

Mobo
Evga Nvidia Nforce 780i tri sli board

Cpu
Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 kentsfield 2.4Ghz

Graphics Card
Evga Geforce 8800gts 512Mb

Drives
2x asus 20x lightscribe cd/dvd Rom drives

Hardrive
Western Digital 1Terabyte 7200rpm

Ram
Corsair DDR2 800 xms 4gigs

PSU
Corsair 650 Watt

Case
Antec 900

Thanks, Vince

[screwballl]

If you just recently installed it, try installing it again...
Google search says it could be a corrupted lsass.exe file, could be a sasser virus left over from previous install if this HD was used previously. If it was used previously, format the entire thing and make one big partition or get rid of all partitions, then split it back into 2 again... if there are files you need to keep, then put that hard drive in another compter, save all the files needed then back to the new one and clear the drive.

[Boy'nBlack]

Yup, bad install. It's far too common to just have to reinstall again. With Windows installs, you just pick the most comfortable attempt with the less quirks in it and stick with that one.

It's stuck installing, doesn't like the MS stated default drivers, and nVidia chips are notorious for being wonky just as much as they're loved. Being simple, I'd step back and flash the BIOS then do the entire affair again. They usually have 5 patches out before you even get the board out of the box.

[callmevince567]

it can't be the sasser virus because its a brand new formatted western digital hardrive

[callmevince567]

so ur telling me to format the partition again w ntfs
caus

[screwballl]

yep clear all partitions and then split the hard drive into 2... I find having more than 2 partitions on a single drive have caused me problems in the past with Win2000 and XP...
once that is done fully format and reinstall XP

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by callmevince567

it can't be the sasser virus because its a brand new formatted western digital hardrive

No, and the patch & fix for Sasser was in SP2 so what you have won't be bothered. I vote with the rest. Reformat and reinstall.

Ron