Windows XP startup problem

I know this is a highly-picky question, but there’s some smart people here and one of you might be able to help.

The computer in question is an AMD Athlon based computer that had been running Windows 98Se fairly happily.

I have been trying to install Windows XP Home Edition on it. The installation to all appearances was successful, but I have not been able to start the machine except in Safe mode. In normal startup, the drivers load, I see the screen with the build version, the screen then goes black and startup, well, doesn’t. I believe this should be after the point where drivers and services are loaded, but perhaps not.

I have already:
Turned on the bootlog and sos options in the boot.ini file
Disabled drivers for suspect hardware (sound card, TV/video card, and UPS, specifically)
Tried using Recovery Console to disable all boot and auto-start services that don’t appear essential one by one

I’m at a loss at this point. Anyone got any more ideas? :confused:

Thanks

First check to see that the machine is compatible with XP. M$ has some criteria for a machine to run XP on. CPU & speed; memory, etc.

Actually, never mind. It was the Ethernet adapter, which never crossed my mind to suspect.

If any mod happens across this, they can close it (or just let it drop into oblivion).